US: Dear Secretary Tillerson: This is Why I Had to Resign

Dear Secretary Tillerson: This is Why I Had to Resign

By: Varina Winder
July 25, 2017

On my first day at the State Department, nearly six years ago, I cried. Standing in a bare-bones conference room under an American flag, I choked up with pride as I repeated the oath of office:

“I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Six years later, I cried again when I walked out the State Department door one last time. Only this time, those tears were for the loss of American leadership, and the needless, tragic deaths of far too many women and children under the heartless policies of the Trump administration.

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