Foreign ambassadors experience Charleston
More than 30 foreign ambassadors spent time touring the Charleston region earlier this week as part of a trip sponsored by the State Department and the Office of the Chief of Protocol.
The trip was part of Experience America, a program that allows members of the diplomatic corps to see various parts of the country. This week was the 23rd Experience America trip since the program began about 10 years ago, and the third trip during the Trump administration. Previous destinations have included Los Angeles, New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta and Austin, Texas.
“This is the best part of my job, honest to God,” Sean Lawler, chief of protocol of the U.S., said at a reception Monday evening in Mount Pleasant. “I tell the ambassadors … these trips are wonderful because you get to leave Washington, D.C. and get outside the bubble and see what America is, but you also get to know each other.”
