Mr. Hill started out in the Foreign Service, with postings in Europe, East Asia and South Vietnam, where he was a speechwriter for Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Mr. Hill served as political counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, director of Arab-Israeli affairs and deputy assistant secretary of state for the Middle East. In part, “his influence lay in his quite extraordinary, relentless note-taking,” said his former student Molly Worthen, author of “The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost,” a 2006 biography of Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill and his colleagues “were reasserting the need to talk about giant ideas and not simply make foreign affairs a matter for the technocrats,” she added. Mr. Hill was later a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative public policy think tank at Stanford University.

Source: Washington Post March 31, 2021 02:37 UTC