Bob Schieffer On Foreign Policy Faux Pas
Clinton’s Russian Mistranslation Isn’t Nearly As Embarrasing As President Carter’s Polish Misstep

I was standing on an airport runway in Warsaw when then-President Jimmy Carter told a Polish crowd he was looking forward to getting to know them.

Surprisingly, the crowd let out a horrified “…uuuhhh” - and no wonder, when we found out why.

Somehow, the President’s own translator mangled his words, and in Polish the message came out that Mr. Carter was eager to know the crowd in a Biblical sense!