Profile: Rex Tillerson: That’s oil, folks

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Age:64

Appearance: bespectacled, heavy-jowled, dark of brow

Newsworthiness: was last week confirmed as Donald Trump’s nominee for US Secretary of State

‘Nobody tells those guys what to do.” In 2001, these were the words of George W Bush, then-president of the United States, about the multibillion-dollar, Texas-based oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil.

Today, from time to time, Bush hangs out with one of “those guys”, Rex Tillerson, a neighbour of his in ...