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what i’ve learned

Antony Blinken

U. S. SECRETARY OF STATE, 60, WASHINGTON, D. C.

__ I WEAR A SLIGHT variation of the same thing every day: a dark-blue suit, a white shirt, and a dark-blue tie. Occasionally I go to the gray suit, and occasionally I go to a patterned tie. I got this from President Obama, who tended to wear something similar every day. When I asked him about it, he said, “It’s another five minutes in my day that I get back, because I’m not spending time thinking about What am I going to

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