Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Tom Donilon

...of state and chief of staff at the State Department . Before that, he worked in the Jimm...
...him to oversee the operations of the State Department . So those were big turning points i...
...to be the chief of staff at the State Department . But it was a determined pivot. And i...
...the head of policy planning at the State Department , and [unclear] a guy named Chri...
...to be the transition director for the State Department and then for the National Securit...

...Specifically, I headed the one for the State Department and then the one for the NSC, which wa...

Antony Blinken

...I think, on day two had gone to the State Department and had spoke a little bit, but thi...
...the administration, I moved over to the State Department as deputy secretary of state. When ...
...arrived the next morning at the State Department , I sat with the secretary and said...
...especially when I went over to the State Department . And, you know, it—I probably spen...

Rick Jordan

...people in these rooms—policy wonks, and State Department people, and military people. And the...

Jerome Sauvage

...And that was John Kerry's time at the State Department . Yeah, there was no question tha...

Wendy Sherman

...Sherman served as counselor for the State Department , 1997 to 2001, as well as specia...
...encountered when you returned to the State Department . One of the things that I tell m...
...working on legislative affairs in the State Department under President Clinton—to what exten...
...were those lessons applicable in the State Department that you found when you returned i...
...officer, every civil servant of the State Department , if you can take one of those one-yea...

...you had your eye on returning to the State Department ? What is the story behind your pat...
...for Secretary Clinton into the State Department . She was going to be the secretary o...
...to help Secretary Clinton come into the State Department . Secretary Clinton did offer me t...
...job—besides secretary of state—at the Department of State because you're responsible for ever...
...also situates your own coming into the State Department in this deliberate attempt t...
...crisis. I believe you came to the State Department almost right after Kim Jong-il ha...
...It was sort of a loving joke around the State Department —if you really wanted to engage th...
...I want to ask, as you came into the State Department in late 2011, did you have the chanc...
...and Secretary Kerry coming into the State Department , but I want to get the story of ho...
...to the centerpiece of your time at the State Department , which is the Iran deal. And I'll jus...
...about your previous experiences in the State Department with Madeleine Albright, or perhaps i...

Judy Heumann

...disability rights for the US State Department . She was the first person to hold tha...
...share, and what we had to learn. The State Department has something called the Internationa...
...work both at the World Bank and at the State Department , in both organizations, one of th...
...for example, with my position at the State Department when I was with the Obam...
...of the work we were doing was helping State Department employees in DC and in embassies aroun...

...in the countries they were working in. State Department has a congressional requirement tha...
...more a culmination, your role at the State Department , of this idea of how can there b...
...of responsibility that I had at the Department of State , was the Convention on the Rights o...
...of disability rights within the State Department . It's so striking because somethin...
...that there are a group of people at the State Department focused on human rights who aren't eve...
...at the World Bank, when I worked at the State Department , when I worked at the Department o...
...lens or having this proliferated at the State Department . And it sounds like the work to d...
...within some of the subgroups that the State Department have in Vienna and in Asia. That wa...
...and raised, not just within the State Department , issues that people engaged with, bu...
...that we felt was important through the State Department , and how to mention disability, an...
...in. And then he became the head of the State Department . So we had really good workin...
...Was it simply an issue of, the State Department had a certain amount of attention tha...
...We had been talking about how at the State Department you were working on creating a len...
...to ask about that in your time at the State Department . It seems like you did so muc...
...opportunities to get employees of the State Department in contact with people in countries. W...
...that already in place for you at the State Department and through posts, or did you have t...
...in screening several times at the State Department was Lives Worth Living. I was going t...
...been really focused on the State Department . I wanted to make sure I asked ho...
...being held at the White House with the State Department , particularly on the CRPD. But w...
... When looking at, whether it's the Department of State or any federal agency or any major o...
...So when coming into an agency like the State Department or the World Bank—but we're talkin...
...How do we hold people accountable? The State Department is a big agency, and they have ...
...from the African continent to the State Department ; surely we can get this guy fro...
...guy from American University to the State Department . I wondered how that fits into wha...
...didn't know how he would get to the State Department . My colleague and I, Kathy—we di...
...from American University to the State Department and the White House, and that the...
...issue was the convening power of the Department of State , that convening power and in some o...
...the change in direction, or getting the State Department to move in the right direction, i...

Leah Katz-Hernandez

...actually was looking to work for the State Department , and she passed her civil servic...
...were state trips. I worked with the State Department , and the folks who I worked with ther...
...Building. That used to be the State Department , actually, during the time that sh...

Rick Wade

...Department is connected, just like Department of State , in all things international. And so...

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