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Is it a new problem? Last night, I had a look at George Kennan's memoirs 1950-1963. He discussed the congressional move to remove most-favored-nation status from Yugoslavia at the time he was ambassador there. He laid out cogent arguments against it. The congressman Wilbur Mills, who had never been out of the US, ignored him, as did all the senators and congressmen he spoke with.

In general, Kennan gave a picture, not only with regard to Yugoslavia, of congressional policies based on home-state politics.