Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Ben Rhodes ...What they do, they share it with the State Department . Then I remember when we got on th... ...have expected based on the campaign? State Department , Intelligence, different personalitie... ...Then I emailed over to someone at the State Department : “Hey, I'm hearing no news. What ar... ...side of it. What role did the State Department play? Hillary Clinton, of course, bu... ...Campbell and Jake Sullivan from the State Department and Daniel Russel from the NSC came t... ...square.” At the recommendation of the State Department , he sent Frank Wisner as his envoy t... ...after that, Obama gives a speech at the State Department in late May, which, in my reading o... ...had to be—we gave this speech at the State Department to signal that we do this throug... ...the Arab Spring was that speech at the State Department , in terms of the US being actuall... ...to the president. The people at the State Department won't want to touch this, because o... ...to Congress by the White House, State Department , and pretty much everyone involved i... ...campaign against Jen Psaki, who was the State Department spokeswoman at the time. Just crass... ...a whole Global Engagement Center at the State Department to combat Russian disinformation. W... ...that. They were working with the State Department . I think they were working with DR... ...Rights, and Labor], the bureau of the State Department that deals with democracy and huma... ...of spies around him. Or he'd go to the State Department and meet with the ambassadors of al... Show more... Jeremy Bash ...[Hillary Rodham] Clinton and the State Department , I should add. In fact, arguably, the... ...Afghanistan and Iraq, making sure that State Department , and Defense Department, and th... ...there in North Africa. And again, the State Department , DOD, the IC [intelligence community]... Samuel Locklear ...which had a heavy reliance on State Department , and things like that, in it... ...would say that PACOM in the Pacific—the State Department folks would not like to hear me sa... ...me say this, but it's stronger than the State Department , by a long shot, because th... ...sense was that because of the way the State Department is structured—not that they're no... John Kerry ...in terms of coordination between the State Department and the White House, I'm wondering: i... ...public diplomacy at that point, and the State Department became fully engaged. I remember ... ...efforts and cooperation between the State Department and the White House an... ...meetings, the Defense Department, the State Department together. We would alternate betwee... ...between doing a meeting at the State Department , doing it at the Defense Department... Denis McDonough ...along with notetakers from the State Department Operations Center, on his calls wit... ...lot of good process and order into the State Department itself. So, a plugin with Cheryl end... ...which is—and he gave that speech at the State Department where he talked about this—can w... Hillary Clinton ...was a huge challenge to rebuild the State Department , that there had been a lot o... ...even disaffection, people leaving the State Department over some of the Bush-era policies. S... ...issue as you thought about staffing the State Department , as he staffed up the rest of th... ...She invited me to dinner at the State Department with some of her top aides. I kne... ...usually what happens is that the State Department gets to work putting together briefin... ...every aspect of the functioning of the State Department , as well as regional summaries o... ...coordinate all of your meetings at the State Department . They give you a little suite o... ...only been one serving deputy in the State Department . But, all of a sudden, reading som... ...talked with the management of the State Department . Even though it had never been don... ...really enhanced the management of the State Department . He had had Cabinet rank in th... ...Good. You mentioned earlier that the State Department was in a particular mode after tw... ...what would be the budget of both the State Department and USAID [United States Agency fo... ...realized that, historically, the State Department and USAID had submitted separat... ...played off against each other. So the State Department would come in with money for refugees... ...which was quite challenging for the State Department and USAID to get their arms aroun... ...the resources that are already at the State Department and bringing in some outside people... ...in new thinking about issues in the State Department . And there were people who seeme... ...undersecretary for arms control in the State Department . The person I wanted and succeeded i... ...door. There's kind of a feeling in the State Department that Mahogany Row, which is the sevent... ...and the other very top officials of the State Department work, was a mysterious place. So ... ...of what it was like to work in the State Department . One of the things that strikes m... ...of the things that strikes me about the State Department is—you used the word “sprawling,” and ... ...which the Obama administration and the State Department that you were leading engaged in it—... ...the surprise of the older hands in the State Department , I agreed to go on a morning sho... ...global women's ambassadorship in the State Department . And on the very last day of my tenur... ...allowed you to do and allowed the State Department to do on women's rights issues that i... ...There was an effort inside the Clinton State Department to do that. There were also some award... ...visibility, to send a message to the State Department , and to the rest of the government... ...far transcended just the United States State Department . This really needed to affect ho... ...Feed the Future was our idea in the State Department , partnering with USAID. My chief o... ...buy-in and collaboration with the State Department —but, of course, you raise... ...since it is technically under the State Department . I tried one or two other people who ... ...with our Treasury Department and State Department , and we were alternating. We wer... ...within the administration, from the State Department 's view in terms of interagenc... ...deputy chief of staff, the head of the State Department policy planning, now the Biden nationa... ...who was the climate envoy based in the State Department , but appointed for the whol... ...obviously, Mitchell worked out of the State Department with me. And I went, early on, to ... ...about the balance of your time at the State Department after September 2010, what had bee... ...issues. But, as we said yesterday, the State Department is uniquely set up to be engaged in th... ...I think that even some people in the State Department didn't think my going off talking t... ...after the WikiLeaks dump of all of the State Department cables and memos, and there were som... ...had done some work on this in the State Department even prior to that, because I had see... ...you think the administration, and the State Department in particular, were thinking about wha... ...the second-term Obama White House and State Department . Like, god, Libya is cursed. Stay awa... ...we have a wall in the lobby of the State Department with the names of diplomats, foreig... ...over the course of our existence as a State Department . And diplomacy is sometimes dangerous... ...its attention to a CIA facility—not a State Department facility, a CIA facility—that wa... ...bit, the president gave a speech at the State Department in, I think it's the second week o... ...loved the people I worked with, in the State Department , in the White House, at the Pentagon... ...and priorities that you brought to the State Department . We talked about women's rights, abou... Show more... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Education Education go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Black Politics Black Politics