Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Cody Keenan ...it would be really cool to join the State Department and be a diplomat, or the CIA [Centra... Dan Tarullo ...summit process. We didn't want the State Department going off and saying one thing and th... Daniel Fried ...office. And I remember that the State Department legal advisor, John Bellinger, who is ... ...officers, intelligence officers, State Department detailees. “What? Our nation is unde... ...to move fast. So I go down with the State Department lawyer, my deputy, because I'm new i... ...was unlike the panicky people in the State Department . She was wryly amused at the whol... Julianna Smoot ...talking to some of our folks at the State Department , is that some of the ambassadors—bein... ...they called it, a conference, at the State Department . So we opened up the White House an... ...with the Protocol Office over at the State Department to make sure that happens. I'm not sur... Samantha Tubman ...to work with, even when I was at the State Department , whenever we'd host events or hav... ...then that leader is going over to the State Department for lunch. Then we're turning the hous... ...Office before I moved over to the State Department . So, that was super meaningful, an... ...think, again, given that we were in the State Department with one of the agencies that has th... ...But you relied on Protocol in the State Department for a whole host of things when it cam... ...more with her when I was at the State Department , and that was probably one of the mos... Show more... Rajiv Shah ...and those who were responsible for the State Department —and Hillary and I traveled together t... ...you saw that re-relating USAID to the State Department , essentially. Well, the QDDR wa... ...government to work effectively. And the State Department , and [Office of] Foreign Assistance... ...the Future, with Cheryl Mills at the State Department , and Hillary Clinton, and Gayle Smit... Sylvia Burwell ...your National Security Council and your State Department and that sort of thing, actually is a... Josh DuBois ...affairs, basically reinvigorating the State Department and the National Security Council'... ...it off to someone who created the first State Department Office of Religion and Global Affairs... Joanna Rosholm ...that time, and then left to go to the State Department at some point. I do remember he... ...to know what Caroline's life at the State Department must've been like if she thought tha... ...have someone from a protocol in the State Department with you to help make sure you'r... ...essentially, the equivalence of their State Department , sitting in a big conference room. I... Ellen Weintraub ...United States. And they didn't want the State Department . They didn't want ambassadors. It wa... ...and gave me a lot of information. The State Department did not want me to go in my officia... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Human Rights Human Rights go to the Public Health Public Health go to the Black Politics Black Politics