I know what it’s like to make big decisions in small rooms, separated from the rest of the world, alone with the weight of your choices.It seems, in fact, that such acts defined my career.
For six years, I was an official in the , advising secretaries of state and ambassadors, spending my days in secure rooms at the State Department, the White House, and the U.S.
Mission to the United Nations.I frequented gilded conference rooms behind key-carded hallways where men—it was so often me and a room full of men—considered the direction of U.S.
foreign policy. I’d glance at the portraits of former Secretaries—Marshall, Kissinger, Albright, Powell—and feel the privilege and responsibility of my presence.
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