A Conversation with the Counselor: Derek Chollet on Navigating the World
War on the Rocks
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Foreign Service Officer
The position goes back to the early fifties. One of the more puzzling people who held this job before is a william f. Buckley's brother, james buckley,. He went on to become a senator from new york, but held this job for two weeks. So it's been a busy administration, i think it's an understatement, on the foreign policy front. The construct is often that diplomacy fails and then war starts. But of course, diplomacy is on going throughout all this entire process.
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