Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 04, 1978
February 03, 1978
February 05, 1978
Transcript:
Henry Kissinger: Moreover, with the kind of personal diplomacy taht this dinner represents, we avoid the possibility of public gaffes like the one which marred Mr. Carter's visit to Poland. Man: But, Doc, that wasn't really any big deal though, was it? Don't you think the Poles took the "carnal desire" remark all in good fun? Kissinger: In good fun? Can you be serious? Man: Why not? Kissinger: Mr. Perkins, the last people to carnally desire Poland stayed for four years! Man: Oh, right, I heard about that...
Anton Sherwood almost 2 years ago
Or forty. But Carter’s mistranslated desire was for peace, not a piece of Poland.