Perspective: Marie Yovanovitch, William Taylor and other career diplomats, quiet and dignified, have become stars during the impeachment hearings
who Trump appointed ambassador to the European Union. The other is by career diplomats like Yovanovitch and William Taylor, acting ambassador to the Ukraine, who have shaped U.S. foreign policy for years.
Hollywood’s image of State Department employees is often depicted in scenes of bureaucrats running through embassy offices and burning documents as helicopters hover and enemies encroach. Or of cocktail parties in distant compounds, where what’s said is calibrated and nuances are as resounding as exclamation points.
Yovanovitch could have been sent from central casting. She sat before the committee last week with hands folded. She wore a scarf, necklace, glasses and dark blazer. She had navigated warlords in Somalia; survived a crossfire in Moscow. She knew the rough ways of the world order. But she looked particularly uncomfortable sitting before Congress and the public. In concise, unadorned language she explained how appalled she was that U.S.
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