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Career Ambassador Thomas Pickering shares tips on managing an embassy, serving in hardship posts, developing foreign contacts, and navigating a life and career in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Pickering also discusses working for Secretaries Rogers and Kissinger, the Trump administration's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, and the turmoil surrounding Amb. Yovanovitch's removal from Ukraine. Interview excerpted from the forthcoming book: Modern American Diplomacy: A Field Guide to Success in The Foreign Service. This episode was sponsored by the Una Chapman Cox Foundation as well as the American Academy of Diplomacy. For those interested in exploring a career in the Foreign Service, please visit Careers.State.Gov. To find out more about this episode's guest or to dig further into the history and practice of U.S. diplomacy, visit ADST.org.