Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Michael Botticelli ...Administration] and FBI [laughter]. State Department , right. And the State Department, o... ...State Department, right. And the State Department , of course. What was it lik... ...I would review with folks from the State Department , DEA, all the characters that yo... ...look at most of the funding that the State Department gives other countries as it relates t... ...I saw less movement on the part of the State Department in terms of their pivot with some o... Danielle White ...chief of staff for operations at the State Department . Talk about somebody I would trus... ...luggage. There's a division at the State Department that deals with the gifts department... Deesha Dyer ...and the Office of Engagement, and State Department . Working with all of them, as well, t... ...and White House Military Office, State Department , but the Office of Public Engagement... ...kept going over everything with the State Department . I was so tired. Looking back on tha... Angella Reid ...a famous incident of someone from the State Department who literally had an incident on tha... Katie Johnson ...of Defense] has a switchboard. The State Department has a switchboard. All of this i... Karen Richardson ...the Bureau of Public Affairs at the US State Department . Before joining the White House... Gil Kerlikowske ...we had a great relationship with the State Department . The people are coming from thre... ...But we had a good relationship with the State Department . The State Department worked very har... ...with the State Department. The State Department worked very hard to say, “You know, i... Ron Kirk ...government though that they thought the State Department too often used trade as a bargainin... ...authority to the president through the State Department to negotiate trade agreements, an... ...Congress and the president, and not the State Department , I've got to stay laser focused on th... ...at that time, Secretary Clinton at the State Department , Secretary Geithner, our militar... Max Baucus ...virtually no instruction by anybody. State Department , except in preparation for th... ...job. I loved it. In addition—the State Department would be in the building—at that point... ...United States. I don't represent the State Department . And not only that, in diplomati... ...“You know, Max, ambassadors outrank State Department secretaries.” But I didn't make a bi... ...with the White House, with the State Department , who were the main people that yo... ...was pretty much calling the shots. Not State Department , yes. Not State Department. I don'... ...State Department, yes. Not State Department . I don't want to go too far down tha... ...I was. It's a big institution. State Department is a big institution. We have 2,30... ...inertia is strong—it is very strong. State Department does things a certain way. And that'... ...telling people through their own State Department channels. I think I could've done mor... ...first—or the political team through the State Department , or maybe NSC. Then they'd come an... Show more... Jeffrey Bader ...involved in US-China relations at the State Department , the National Security Council [NSC]... ...Security Council; and director of the State Department 's Office of Chinese Affairs. Fro... ...Vietnam. In those days, everyone in the State Department had served in Vietnam. It was a Vietna... ...very hard. So was Kurt Campbell at the State Department , in the East Asia Bureau. I think To... ...since then. The biggest mistake the State Department ever made was to leave the Ol... ...for my whole life, apart from the State Department . I was from the State Departmen... ...the State Department. I was from the State Department culture. If you go to the Nationa... ...W.] Bush years, when I was at the State Department —I have a close friend who was a... ...But you don't have to, whereas at the State Department , I was in a senior position. You ha... Show more... 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