The biographical particulars of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who was nominated to serve as Donald Trump’s secretary of state on Tuesday, seem crafted from a Mad Libs sheet of Michael Moore’s grimmest nightmares. A “tall, strapping Texan” with “a twang to show for it” and “silver coiffure,” Tillerson is an Eagle Scout-turned-multimillionaire after a four-decade run at one of the biggest and most domineering global corporations. And his favorite book is Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.Tillerson’s myriad feats as a businessman—forging the deep ties required to negotiate billion-dollar oil deals with Russia, for example—quickly fomented anxiety, even among the Republican senators …read more
Source: The Atlantic
