Grew up overseas, having lived in Berlin before going to a Swiss boarding school at age 11. After his return from Vietnam, he became a leader of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry holds ...

WASHINGTON — The cardboard box sat empty, expectant, below the soaring ceiling of John Kerry’s office, an art-moderne chamber that belonged to Secretary of State George C. Marshall after World War II.

John Kerry has been a U.S. senator, a presidential candidate and a secretary of state, all after receiving three Purple Hearts for his military service in Vietnam. Now, at the age of 80, he is ...