Thomas Pickering

Hills & Company

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Vice Chairman of the consulting firm, Hills & Company; former Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1997-2001) and Ambassador to the United Nations (1989-1992)

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Barack Obama's first presidential order was to close Guantánamo Bay. Even George W. Bush agreed.

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