would john kerry fit the bill?Is John Kerry Afraid to Speak French on American Soil?
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Dan Amira
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At his very first press conference less than three weeks ago, Secretary of State John Kerry was asked to answer a Canadian reporter’s question in French. “Uh, not today, I gotta refresh myself on that,” he told her, despite his well-known fluency in the language. The refusal “surprised some in the francophone world,” according to the BBC, but it turns out that Kerry doesn’t have a problem with speaking French, per se, because he did it today during a press conference with the French foreign minister:
