Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Macon Phillips

...so, 2013, I went and worked at the State Department , right around Healthcare.go...
...it launched was my first week at the State Department . So that whole, just, complete dro...
...Information Programs [IIP] at the State Department . One prefacing thing to say is that i...
...thank you. We can start with your State Department appointment. I'd love to know the stor...
...important. And I left my time at the State Department , gosh, having learned a lot of othe...

...a team. I think, when I moved to the State Department , I inherited, or I moved into ...
...way of doing things, was seen in the State Department as, sort of, the island of misfit toys...
...going to talk a lot today about the State Department 's use of technology and digital tool...
...like a big part of this is within the State Department and comfort with using some of thes...
...together a team with Secretary Kerry's State Department . During the first term, Hillar...
...being distributed in the world. And the State Department needed to be savvy in its, sort of...
...suit-to-flip-flops. This idea that the State Department , and any sort of element of the U...
...and just said, “Hey, can you host our State Department magazine team at your newsroom just t...
...site, like the Drudge Report, for the State Department , but more have a service site, tha...
...web 2.0 movement hasn't exactly hit the State Department completely. This idea that, Gosh...
...built on this idea that throughout the State Department , when I showed up, everything wa...
...to the way that I felt IIP and the State Department should be approaching content. “Here'...
...what those stories were that the State Department wanted to push out into the world...
...one of my first meetings at the State Department included a public diplomacy DAS fro...
...a thing you say when you work for the State Department , and had a whole briefing with th...
...a thing you learn when you work for the State Department . I remember I ran the number, and ...
...I'm not saying this is limited to the State Department . But, by god, the amount of resource...
...the United States, Barack Obama, State Department , all that sort of stuff. Th...
...now? What are our priorities at the State Department ? What is Tony Blinken thinking abou...
...little bit of lift just coming from the State Department anyway. We had seen Doug Frantz had pu...
...you look at an institution like the State Department and how it's deploying resources, i...
...But the work that you were doing at the State Department , the work that other people were doin...

Katie Fallon

...is such a breach of protocol.” And our State Department folks were particularly worked up bu...
...of the White House and of the State Department . So, in order to allow them t...
...and tension into the dynamics with the State Department , in particular. On this day—Senator...
...for potential amendments past the State Department or share them with—they wanted just t...
...members and not being influenced by the State Department . So it was in one of these channe...

...There was a lot of anxiety from the State Department folks that were really eager to protec...

Sally Jewell

...The ultimate decision rested with the State Department because it was a cross-border pipeline...

David Axelrod

...Holbrooke was working at the State Department and was trying to effect a politica...

Gayle Smith

...asked me if I wanted to work in the State Department in the Office of Policy Planning...
...but it might run into, “Actually, the State Department has a slightly different equity here,...

Scott Gration

...sleep and I'm hearing that [laughs] the State Department is sending the démarche out to arres...
...there was people that came over to the State Department for a year of internship from the othe...
...and democracy programs. There are other State Department agencies, the refugee programs an...
...it may have been twelve people in the State Department [laughs], it was massive in terms o...
...discuss them, and key leaders from the State Department , Department of Defense, USAID, othe...

...and US envoy working for her in the State Department , she was great for me. Yeah. Than...
...that I got tremendous support from the State Department , from the White House, and fro...
...that was better than the one from the State Department [laughs]. Because they had to g...
...[laughs]. I found out in the State Department , they don't do this. But I said, “I'...
...did what a military officer does, but a State Department diplomat does not do. I wrote this ou...
...said, “You're a general. Military and State Department historically have not done well...
...military has a lot more money than the State Department , and it has more influence and les...
...All the computers were from the State Department . I'd been a general officer for ove...
...was. All my official emails were on the State Department 's open-net server. I gave them m...
...out that I was exonerated, but the State Department IG [inspector general] would not mak...
...for him to reach in and override the State Department would have been not too hard. So ...
...want to relive the experience in the State Department embassy. But these experiences hav...

Gregory Craig

...at the memo and realizing that the State Department , the Justice Department, and th...
...when we had a new legal advisor in the State Department , Harold [Hongju] Koh, he may have...

Felicia Escobar Carrillo

...with differing objectives, such as Department of State and Department of Justice, what you'...

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