Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Huma Abedin

...some of what you're doing at the State Department , I wanted to ask what did that jo...
...we get to your years in the State Department —from her time on the hill? Mayb...
...want to talk about before we get to the State Department is the campaign in 2008. Was that als...
...woman who sat in what is known in the State Department as the fish bowl office, because it'...
...but one in the White House, one in the State Department . I have to imagine there are som...

...buy-in from career people at the State Department , particularly around these issues. Bu...
...women's meetings and events at the State Department . She came in with her “three stools...
...“We're going to schedule these with the State Department , these actual formal swearings-in. Yo...
...He needs to physically be here at the State Department to show—not just me, Hillar...
...that by the time that we were leaving State Department , my office became the place wher...
...that period in time was like at the State Department . It felt as though—because you'r...
...it made my job much easier than at the State Department . So that I could call people, like th...
...when she's on the Hill, and then at the State Department . What would you want historians t...

Esther Brimmer

...This was her third appointment in the State Department , having been a member of the Office o...
...my career. And, indeed, my time at the State Department I did find that there were issues tha...
...every stage of my career working at the State Department . Yes, and I was curious—as a way o...
...in the Obama administration and Clinton State Department ? Indeed, yes there were. I woul...
...tragedies and bring them back into the State Department . And I literally wrote the part of th...

...the role that the legal office at the State Department had played, and others, and the rea...
...amongst the teams—I was on the State Department transition office, and I was actuall...
...and then also Condoleezza Rice at the State Department , she'd said, “You must cooperate. Thi...
...White House or an opportunity at the State Department . And so we probably took a littl...
...in the position, the importance the State Department was going to have, the importance thes...
...power, and what her vision for the State Department 's role in that would be. At first ...
...it interfaces with other bureaus at the State Department but also positions in the White House...
...that were important within the State Department were the assistant secretaries of th...
...let's say women's issues at the State Department and climate change, where you hav...
... So, as you know, when you walk in the State Department , and you walk around the ground floor...
...years earlier, when I was at the State Department in the Clinton administration, was thi...
...That's what's powerful. And so the State Department team organized consultations across th...
...delegation was obviously headed by the State Department . But we took officials from twelv...
...of Treasury, Department of Commerce, Department of State —are working together, because in orde...
...in earlier stages of my time at the State Department and some of the, let's say, part of ou...
...to be in that meeting? Is that the State Department ? Is that Department of Commerce?...
...in talking about your years at the State Department . As a way of kind of reflecting o...
...on, during those four years at the State Department , what his administration was able t...

Neal Wolin

...Albright, appointed him to the State Department slot which he held even after comin...

Tom Harkin

...here, and there's a lot of worry at the State Department and the Department of Defense about th...
...of things. I am being asked by the State Department to get the photos so that we kno...
...the public safety directorate under the State Department , knew all about the tiger cages. Hell...
...lying that they weren't there. So the State Department knew about it. So I figured, Wait ...

Pete Rouse

...that was negotiating this for the State Department ended up getting close to a deal t...
...the person who was negotiating with the State Department and foreign governments. So th...
...executed from the White House counsel, State Department , NSC [National Security Council], an...
...years later was a key person at the State Department . So, I don't know. That's sort o...

Nancy-Ann DeParle

...Other scientists were brought in. The State Department and we were trying to decide whethe...
...is the chief protocol officer for the State Department . Her job is to make the introductions...

Cass Sunstein

...the president. The secretary of state, State Department 's rules, go through OIRA, th...

Jon Favreau

...went on to be his chief of staff at the State Department . And he gave me a chance to write as ...

Nicole Lurie

...that you wouldn't have imagined—the State Department and all the embassies as an example...
...countries, do you work closely with the State Department and Foreign Affairs, or is it interna...
...responsibility for interfacing with the State Department . And CDC, obviously, does a lot o...
...there was also a lot of need at the State Department and ambassadors for information, fo...

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