Nightly News | August 17, 2011
He buys his own coffee?
A photo of the U.S. ambassador to China Gary Locke is receiving huge attention in China. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>>> and a photo of the u.s. ambassador to china is receiving huge attention right now in china. it's not very exciting, we'll show it to you. the picture shows ambassador gary locke , former governor of washington state is a chinese american , he's en route to china, wearing a backpack and buying coffee. you see in china authorize where even junior officials have somebody buy their coffee for them and carry their bags for them, lock's photo has been reposted, sent around the web thousands of times because of the frugality and modesty it shows. ambassador lock explained he likes doing things on his own.