Kerry has given a large number of interviews and speeches in the last week or so.

[karynnj]

All are to some degrees reflections on his long career. One yesterday, in Cambridge MA, after his speech at MIT on climate change, he had an interview with a local station that he must have greatly enjoyed.

After all, how many people are asked a question that honors the interviewee's character more than this one:

QUESTION: So I was thinking back to many decades ago, your testimony on Capitol Hill about Vietnam, that – the testimony that really put you on the national stage. You were driven by conscience to say what you said then. And I wonder – and that’s been sort of a major part of your career in political service since then. Am I hearing correctly that your conscience is demanding you to – you made the speech about the Middle East a couple weeks ago, you’re speaking about climate change today. I mean, as you’re looking at the last couple of weeks of your tenure as Secretary of State, is there something more than just policy driving you to speak this way now?

SECRETARY KERRY: I came into public life during the 1960s when a whole bunch of us believed in our ability to change the world. And we did a lot of things. I was part of the environment movement, part of the women’s movement. We had the Equal Rights Amendment. We helped set the country on a course to change its relationship with 50 percent of our country, with women. I was part of the peace effort to try to end the war in Vietnam, to put us on a different track. As a public person, I’ve always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/01/266744.htm

I am so happy to see a reporter note that enduring pattern in how Kerry has acted over a very long public career.

Here is a link to transcripts of his recent speeches and interviews: https://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2017/index.htm