Was Rex Tillerson The Worst Secretary Of State In History?

Subject: White House adviser Henry Kissinger with unidentified man. Washington D.C. 1969Photographer- Alfred EisenstaedtTime Inc OwnedMerlin-1153700 — Nixon's two Secretaries of State William Rogers and Henry Kissinger in 1969. (Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt/Time & Life Pictures)

March 13, 2018 4:44 p.m.

The analyses started long before his tenure ended: Rex Tillerson may well go down as the worst secretary of state in recent memory. "Tillerson was, as is now recognized even by those who put him there, a disaster," political scientist and...

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