Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Lisa Jackson ...The administration had, through State Department , through other departments, lots o... ...main negotiation happens through the State Department . EPA was not in charge of th... ...the negotiators, the folks from the State Department . I don't think this is confidential... Frances Beinecke ...June 2013 that Obama said, “If the State Department finds this is not in the nationa... Arun Majumdar ...as the science envoy with the State Department to the Balkans and Poland. I'm doin... Gina McCarthy ...highest levels of government, at the State Department , and obviously working in concert wit... Bill McKibben ...Clinton set up a whole wing of the State Department devoted to helping other countrie... Kate Orff ...many employees of—whether it was the State Department or the Army. My dad originally was i... Todd Stern ...special envoy for climate change at the Department of State . In that position he was Presiden... ...my colleagues who I knew back from the State Department , who I had met and worked with durin... ...closest advisor all the way through at State Department , had gone up to see Prime Ministe... ...a guy named Dan Reifsnyder—a longtime State Department career guy, terrific guy, had don... ...our conference room, room 1430 in the State Department , the windowless conference room wher... ...her with, and then come back to the State Department with Kerry and came back to work on m... ...it's not clear yet on their side. The State Department sort of makes the trains run on time... ...the White House lead on it, and I'm the State Department lead. We talked to Xie and his team ... ...special envoy for climate change at the Department of State . In that position, he was Presiden... ...of [laughs] having them come to the State Department ? And Sue said, “Because their coffe... ...So then I had to work that out with the State Department , but I did. I went in October for ... Show more... Nancy Sutley ...So we wrote a comment letter to the State Department [laughs] about the NEPA review, an... ...been pretty routine because their—the State Department 's review was very narrow because i... ...So I spent a lot of time talking to the State Department and EPA about the Keystone pipeline... ...to follow up on what you said about the State Department . So, they were surprised when th... ...the trade rep. So when we came in, the State Department took the lead. Todd Stern, who wa... Jeh Johnson ...doing battle with Harold Koh from the State Department , who was acting way beyond any mandat... ...guise of being a legal advisor to the State Department , for us to get there. To be fair, ... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Asia Rebalance Asia Rebalance go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism