Talk:U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
Level of personal detail in the article
In the diplomatic articles, such as U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, I've been restricting the details about the current ambassador to current policies and linking to a biographical article. The reason I do that is that it lets me make clear policy trends among ambassadors. The list of ambassadors, although I'm not quite prepared to type back to 1781, also shows interesting: note that L. Paul Bremer, the viceroy in Iraq, was an ambassador to the Netherlands. He was always a European specialist; it seemed as if the Bush administration went out of their way to get people without area-specific knowledge. The article I cited also has the interesting point that U.S. ambassadors have generally been financial contributors, and many have serious interests in art.Howard C. Berkowitz 07:08, 24 August 2009 (UTC)