DURING THESE NEGOTIATIONS, I had the chance to work closely with John Kerry for the first time. He had already represented Massachusetts in the US Senate for ten years by the time I moved to the Boston area for law school, and I had crossed paths with him at Harvard events and Red Sox games over the years. I had also watched him in action when I worked in Obama’s Senate office, as they both served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But I could never have predicted the warmth he would show me as his colleague. The relationship between UN ambassadors and secretaries of state is often
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