From 26Feb21:  A lot of folks are acting upset that VP Harris is talking with world leaders. 1) That's a routine role for VPs, beginning with VP Nixon under Ike. 2) The VP is a statutory member of the National Security Council. 3) I do wonder whether the same folks getting upset now expressed their annoyance when unelected (and frankly unqualified) Presidential Advisors, not members of the NSC, took the same role. [Yes, Ivanka and Jared, notably.]

I wonder if those folks would be upset to learn that I represented the United States in a key meeting with the President of Montenegro...