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- 16 Nov 2024
Eric Garcetti confirmed as US ambassador to India after contentious 20-month fight
Eric Garcetti confirmed as US ambassador to India after contentious 20-month fight
- by theguardian
- 16 Mar 2023
- in politics
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The session began with uncertain prospects for Garcetti, a two-term, progressive Democrat first nominated to the prominent diplomatic post by Biden in July 2021.
The former mayor, who took office in 2013, has been credited with continuing a transit buildup in a city choked with traffic, and establishing tougher earthquake safety standards for thousands of buildings.
An Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes scholar, he spent two decades in city government either as mayor or a city councilman and took a circuitous path toward the diplomatic corps. Ambassadorships are frequently a reward for political supporters.
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