When David L. Cohen was confirmed as President Biden’s Ambassador to Canada in 2021, he was forced to do something that, at the time, felt incredibly uncomfortable to him: Step down from more than a dozen companies, community groups, boards and nonprofits with which he was affiliated.

That included Comcast NBCUniversal, where he was Senior Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor to CEO Brian Roberts; the University of Pennsylvania, where he chaired the Board of Trustees; the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia; City Year; the Philadelphia Theater Company; and many, many other groups both here and around the country.

“I hated the stringent Biden and Obama ethics rules that required me to resign my entire life,” says Cohen, who sent out 19 letters of resignation in one d

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