delegation
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As with most members of California’s congressional delegation, Swalwell was an unfamiliar figure to many Californians living outside his Alameda County district, even though he had a lighthearted, robust presence on social media.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Harry Summers, who’d won Bronze and Silver stars in that war as an operations officer, flew to Hanoi as chief of the U.S. delegation to resolve the status of missing American soldiers.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran's parliament who led Tehran's delegation in Islamabad, sounded unfazed by Trump's sabre-rattling in a statement upon his return home.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Fred Fleitz, a senior National Security Council official during Trump’s first term, said the large delegation Iran sent to Islamabad showed a diplomatic solution can be achieved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026
This was Adams’s apparently impulsive decision, announced on February 18, 1799, to send another peace delegation to France.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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