Time's tapestry stephen baxter6/30/2023 ![]() After graduating from Harvard and Columbia Law School, Blinken landed his first State Department job in the early Nineties, as a special assistant in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. ambassador to Hungary for four years during the Clinton administration. “And it’s a nice change of pace from, say, Middle East peace.”īlinken has spent close to a lifetime prepping for his current job. “I tell you, it’s a pleasure to do,” he says about carving out time for such an unusual conversation. That crisis and other pressing issues delayed the conversation, but last week, Blinken finally found time to talk. Shortly before the latest flare-up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Blinken agreed to talk with Rolling Stone about his rock & roll jones. ![]() When Blinken’s name surfaced as a nominee, his longtime passion for music made the headlines: It turns out he could play guitar reasonably well, wrote record reviews during his college days, and had penned his own songs (even making indie recordings of some of them, available on streaming services). In January, Blinken was sworn in as secretary of state under President Biden. On the plane home from Jordan, Antony Blinken seems relieved to be talking about something other than his day job. ![]()
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