Whether possessed of swagger or sniggers, American diplomats have witnessed a dramatic change not only in the role of American foreign policy in the world but also in its mechanics – and the endangerment of a tradition of diplomacy that, from Benjamin Franklin to Daniel Webster to James A. Trump’s new Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was in the remarkable position of standing amid his diplomatic corps and trying to reassure State Department officials that they were still relevant, adding what none of his modern-day predecessors was remotely required to say: that it was okay for them to regain their ‘’swagger.’’ This was necessary because the first Trump Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, began his tenure by proposing a 40-per-cent budget cut.
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