Norman L. Eisen, named temporary Ambassador to the Czech Republic by President Barack Obama last month, was sworn in to office on Friday in Washington, D.C. In his speech, the freshly minted US ambassador — known as President Obama’s ethics czar — quoted Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, who said “real democracy lies in morality” and pledged to live up to that precept.
