Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts 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... John Podesta ...going to the UN; Jim was head of the State Department , Donilon and Jones going to NSC. S... ...the right place to put her was at the State Department . Then the question was, was that ... ...I think. So we kept him out of the State Department doing human rights work, because h... ...in those roles in the White House or State Department , if they were in government. Many o... ...adviser role with her at the State Department . Then she stood up a policy advisor... ...got in the budget, flowed through the State Department , we were able to fund that at a fairl... Show more... Geraldine Richmond ...today, as I indicated, she was US State Department science envoy to the Southeast Asi... ...the idea [laughs] of that around to the State Department , met with some folks at USAID [Unite... ...support. I met several people in the State Department . Bill Colglazier, who is an icon i... ...hi and goodbye. I had someone from the State Department then would come with me and help t... ...The person I had with me from the State Department would help with that and come up with ... ... Did you have any discussions with the State Department , again before going, about how yo... ...that I had with people at the State Department . They were very interested in th... ...them. I was really fortunate that the State Department also funded a workshop. I had th... ...reports? I don't know if people in the State Department that wanted to hear what you had t... ...too, so I would always stop by the State Department and let them know what I'd been up to... ...with them, this team that's in the State Department working in this particular area. No... ...and that region, because in the State Department there are certain people that focus o... ...trips themselves. You talked about the State Department personnel who would kind of work wit... ...were able to convey to people in the State Department about the—your learning curve i... ...is to gain funding, and also some other State Department funding, to bring together wome... ...Tunisia, and Algeria. Through State Department work and also work with some othe... ...southern part of Algeria, and so the State Department said, “You're not going there.” And th... ...when I was pitching my ideas to the State Department , was to do an initial visit... ...that the people that I work with in the State Department and AID, they're very sensitive t... Show more... Paula Reid ...Homeland Security [DHS] leadership is, State Department is, chief ushers are. There's a lot o... Thomas Tidwell ...but we work primarily with the State Department and with USAID [United States Agenc... Omezzine Khelifa ...having with the ambassador, with the State Department , in [Department of] Treasury? Wher... Harold Varmus ...been continual frustration that the State Department doesn't generally have science attaché... ...on behalf of the president or the State Department to other parts of the world would b... ...we started that program and the State Department sponsored envoys—about three per year... Barney Frank ...company that's doing business with the State Department , the Energy Department, et cetera. An... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere