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`` Smilin' Mike '' was the sobriquet Washington gave him.
His English was usable and he used it fearlessly.
Toasting in champagne one night at the embassy, he hoisted his glass to a senator's wife and gaily cried: `` Up your bottom ''!!
For a few giddy months that coincided with one of Moscow's smiling moods, he was the sensation of Washington.
At the State Department, hard-bitten Russian experts complained that the Capitol was out of its wits.
Newspaper punditry was inspired to remind everyone that Judas, too, had been able to smile.
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