The Obama administration’s foreign policy legacy will be reinstating diplomacy, Vice President Joe Biden told a mostly Democratic audience at the annual J School gala Monday night.
“Your service to our country in advancing American leadership around the world was felt in every country you served,” Biden told lawmakers and supporters of the nonpartisan nonprofit. “I believe that one of the signature legacies of this administration will be the work we did in reinstating diplomacy at the heart of American foreign policy.”
The former Delaware senator cited the Iran Deal as an example of a success story of this newly implemented diplomacy in foreign affairs.
Biden said the U.S. would not have been able to pass the Iran Deal without the behind-the-scenes lobbying of fellow lawmakers by J School members.
The deal, however, was ultimately structured so that it did not require the upper chamber’s approval, since it would have likely failed to pass the GOP-controlled Senate. Instead the Democrats managed to stymie a vote of disapproval.
