When he sits down Wednesday for his confirmation hearing, Secretary of State-nominee Rex Tillerson will immediately become one of the most unusual picks to be the America’s top diplomat in recent US history.
A former ExxonMobil CEO, Rex Tillerson has no experience inside the US government and a long record of working with foreign powers, most notably Vladimir Putin’s Russia. That relationship led Sen. John McCain, a leading Russia hawk, to say he could only support Tillerson “when pigs fly.”
McCain’s office later claimed this was a joke. And Tillerson does have strong support from leading Republican foreign policy hands, …read more
Source: Vox
