Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs to be done. To learn more about the series, click here .

I was excited to take the Foreign Service Exam a bit over a quarter century ago. I had always been a foreign policy nerd; I had memorized the flags of every country in the world in kindergarten and would reproduce them with crayons at the art table.

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