# A Diplomatic Holiday To You!

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Podcast: [American Diplomat](https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-diplomat-9204)
Published: 2025-12-25T11:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

For the holidays, we asked diplomats to share their tales. We have Ken Quinn whose young kids' Christmas in Austria was saved by a team including the Chattanooga Choo Choo, a muslim Santa and a temporary North Korean "daugther". We have Peter Pham who, on his way home for the holidays from his post in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was diverted to Paris due to the US government shutdown, which turn of events led him to ensure the safety return of a recent Congolese Nobel Prize winner. And we have Kent Logsdon who shares a moving tale of singing in an ambassadors' version of a barbershop quartet the song War Is Over , when indeed, war had only just ended in that country. Have a lovely holiday season, everyone!

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