At the award ceremony for Marie Yovanovich, the dean of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service says, “We are the original globalists. We embrace the term proudly.”
Of Yovanovich he says, “This is what intellectual courage looks like. This is what a moral compass looks like.”
He and another speaker refer to “refugees from the foreign service.” Constant bird-flipping to the White House at this event—in the most diplomatic language possible, naturally.
Thomas Pickering reminds the crowd that diplomats—part of the executive branch—“swear an oath to the Constitutions” and that “no one can suffer the slings and arrows of such outrageous fortune” as Marie Yovanovich has.
Pickering: “Masha, I thank you with all my heart for all that you’ve done.”
