[PW] Thomas Jefferson quotation

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

This quotation is given in <Digital Diplomacy: U.S. Foreign Policy in
the Information Age> (2001) by Wilson Dizard Jr., on page 100:

<The significant difference between traditional diplomacy and today's
version is the accelerating pace, volume and breadth of information
which diplomats need to make informed decisions. It is a long way,
chronologically and otherwise, from the era when President Thomas
Jefferson famously wrote to his secretary of state, James Madison: "We
have not heard from our ambassador in Paris for two years. If we do not
hear from him by the end of this year, let us write him a letter.">

There is a footnote that may or may not indicate a source:  It says -- 

<For a survey of the early history of the State Department's information
resources, see: "Franklin sent messages in triplicate-or even
quintuplicate," State Magazine, April 1987, pp. 15-16.>

I share Dennis Lien's skepticism.  Jefferson was too smart a guy to say
something inane like this.

-- Tom 

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