The Foreign Service Journal, February 2004

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 0 4 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 13 F RESH OUT OF P RINCETON IN 1926, G EORGE K ENNAN JOINED THE F OREIGN S ERVICE . I T CHANGED HIS LIFE . B Y B OB G ULDIN F O C U S O N G E O R G E K E N N A N hen he wrote an article for the Foreign Service Journal in 1953, the accompanying author’s identification said, “George F. Kennan needs no introduction to Journal readers.” That may no longer be quite as true as it was then, so a biographical note is perhaps in order. George Frost Kennan is probably the best known and most highly esteemed scholar and shaper of foreign poli- W Ben Fishman M R . X S PEAKS : A N I NTERVIEW WITH G EORGE K ENNAN Editor’s Note: Ambassador Kennan turns 100 on Feb. 16, 2004. This interview originally appeared in the May 1999 issue of the Journal . To the best of our knowledge, it is the most recent full-length interview he has given.