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Trading Snarl for Smile, Pompeo Makes Case to Lead State Department

Code Pink protesters demonstrate as Mike Pompeo and his wife, Susan, center in the front row, attend his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, April 12, 2018. Senators on Thursday implored Pompeo, the CIA director, to stabilize the Trump administration’s erratic diplomacy by standing up to Russia and other adversaries and reinstalling American influence among allies. (Lawrence Jackson/The New York Times)