Bill Richardson Reveled in Role of Freelance Envoy to Dictators

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Mr. Clinton, who nominated Mr. Richardson to be his ambassador to the United Nations the next year, said that he had "undertaken the toughest and most delicate diplomacy around the world," and marveled that just a few days earlier, Mr. Richardson "was huddled in a rebel chieftain's hut in Sudan, eating barbecued goat and negotiating the freedom of three hostages."
58% : And his role in U.S. negotiations with countries like Iran (helping secure the release of Michael White, a Navy veteran, in 2020), Myanmar (helping negotiate the freedom of the U.S. journalist Danny Fenster in 2021) and Russia became a source of tension with both the Trump and the Biden administrations.

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