We talked about this telegram in one of my classes in college - American Nuclear Politics. The professor, who had been in the Foreign Service for 20-odd years b

We talked about this telegram in one of my classes in college - American Nuclear Politics. The professor, who had been in the Foreign Service for 20-odd years before moving to academia, had a (somewhat) joking theory that Kennan's Long Telegram had done more harm than good, because it inspired countless other Foreign Service Officers to write Long Telegrams of their own in the hopes of having similar levels of influence.