Antony Blinken

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Does Antony Blinken drink alcohol?: Yes.Antony Blinken is an American government official who is the 71st United States Secretary of State. He was nominated by Joe Biden as Secretary of State in November 2020. Earlier, he served as the Deputy Secretary of State of the United States from 2015 to 2017. Blinken is also known for serving many key positions in the Obama administration, like Deputy National Security Adviser, Deputy Assistant to the President, and National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden.His mother, Judith, is from Paris, while his father, Donald M. Blinken, is from New York.Apart from being an investment banker, his father was also the board chairman of the State University of New York from 1978 to 1990 who later served as ambassador to Hungary.Blinken spent his childhood in New York City where he attended Dalton School. According to his mother, Judith, during his interview at Dalton School as a kindergartener, when a teacher asked Blinken what he thought of a painting on the wall, he replied, Some people would call it a painting, but I would call it a picture..In 1970, his parents, Judith and Donald, divorced, and his mother later married a Polish-born American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor, Samuel Pisar, who had survived both the Auschwitz and Dachau camps. Reportedly, Blinkens mother and Samuel Pisar first met each other at a New York soiree in 1968.In 1971, Antony Blinken, along with his divorced mother and her new husband Samuel Pisar, moved to Paris, France, where he attended cole Jeannine Manuel, a private co-educational day school. His high-school yearbook has a photograph of Blinken with an inscription of Pink Floyd lyrics, just another brick in the wall Antony Blinken pictured in the 1980 year book of the cole Jeannine Manuel.Reportedly, while growing up, Blinken would passionately listen to his stepfathers (Samuel Pisar) experience surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In an interview, while talking about this, Samuel Pisar said, He Wanted to know. He took in what had happened to me when I was his age, and I think it impressed him and it gave him another dimension, another look at the world and what can happen here. When he has to worry today about poison gas in Syria, he almost inevitably thinks about the gas with which my entire family was eliminated..During his stay in Paris, Blinken aspired to become a filmmaker, and he organized a film festival. In an interview, his father, Donald M. Blinken, commented on Tonys filmmaking ambition, he said, Everyone age 21 wants to make films..Reportedly, Blinken was confused between pursuing the arts and politics as a career option, and eventually, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University.