This is the week that many in the State Department hoped would never come — the week when Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns actually hung up his pinstripes. Not that it is a surprise. In April, when Burns, a 32-year Foreign Service veteran and only the second career diplomat to rise to the deputy secretary slot, announced his intent to go, Secretary of State John Kerry called him a “diplomatic legend,” comparing him to the likes of George Kennan and Chip Bohlen.

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