Tillerson leads from shadows of State Department
He has skipped every opportunity to define his views or give guidance to US diplomats abroad, limiting himself to terse, scripted statements
Washington
HENRY Kissinger slipped into the State Department last week for a quiet lunch in his old office with Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil chief executive, who has all but covered himself in a cloak of invisibility in his first six weeks as secretary of state.
Describing his impressions, Mr Kissinger, perhaps the United States' most famous diplomatic strategist, chose his words judiciously. "The normal tendency when you come into that job is to increase your visibility and to show that you are p…
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