 Foreign Service, but still a second-tier diplomat. In Moscow, he's frustrated with the U.S. government. He's frustrated with the ambassador who he feels is not listening to him, frustrated with Washington. And so his friends in the State Department, who at this point the United States, the Truman administration, is already veering sharply away from Roosevelt's policy of trying to collaborate with the Soviet Union. The Truman administration is veering sharply toward what would become the Cold War. Kennedy was not aware of the extent of this shift already.