Department of State - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Department of State Index / Organizations Transcripts Michèle Flournoy ...Almost like the Dissent Channel at the State Department . Right. That seems similar. Now... ...from the Defense Department to the State Department , to the extent Congress would allo... ...in interagency meetings, watching the State Department and the vice president, on behalf o... ...the work of the Treasury Department, State Department , with the NSC overseeing. But ther... Jim Steinberg ...that, held positions as director of the State Department 's policy planning staff and as deput... ...administration, I'd served both at the State Department and at the White House. It allowed m... ...allowed me both to understand the State Department reasonably well—so I had that advantag... ...And of course, I enjoyed my time at the State Department enormously. I have an enormous respec... ...I have an enormous respect for the State Department and both the career and the Foreig... ...time in the first Clinton term from the State Department , so I was excited about going back t... ...of whether to have two deputies at the State Department . The Congress had authorized a secon... ...perspectives on the governing of the State Department issues. I want to ask one mor... ...which is her approach to running the State Department . She has this part in Hard Choice... ...policy, and then the manager of the State Department . And inevitably, that fourth role i... ...meetings with the senior staff of the State Department ; and frequent meetings, once a week... ...with an even more expanded group of State Department leadership types. Her door was open... ...between the secretary and the State Department in Washington. So we both spent a lo... ...also then have Hillary Clinton at the State Department , somebody with a lot of experience o... ...and I obviously saw it from the State Department perspective and not the White Hous... ...after you're confirmed and at the State Department . I don't want to ask whether the Obam... ...and constraints you and others at the State Department were thinking about as you looked ou... ...interests there; how do you keep State Department personnel and AID [Agency fo... ...nineteenth, Obama gives a speech at the State Department . I would call it a follow-on to th... ...House wrote a ton of speeches. The State Department rarely had a role in any of th... ...those kinds of connections at the State Department through Secretary Clinton that it wa... ...we heard about this, those of us in the State Department with experience with Japan, and thos... ...as important to your time in the State Department . Iran was very important. And ... ...issue. I had worked on it both at the State Department and at the White House. So when we cam... ...in the Obama White House or in the State Department ended up being important for you, a... Show more... John Brennan ...ambassadors in these capitals, and with State Department officers, as well as intelligenc... ...in the Intelligence Community and the Department of State that were steeped in the politics an... ...again with the White House and the State Department there. Just staying on Russia for ... Carrie Tan Huimin ...eight weeks, I remember we went to the State Department for a visit, and some of us wer... Tawakkol Karman ...winning Nobel Prize, it was in the State Department . And I met her. That was one of m... ...announced, really, the support of the State Department of America to the peaceful revolution... ...is something. And after she leaves, the State Department is something else. I think tha... Rumana Ahmed ...do, or have, with counterparts at the State Department ? I understand you were interactin... ...complete coordination with the State Department team for Middle East. I was workin... ...touch points for engagement at the State Department , so I was just curious whether ther... Richard Verma ...legislative affairs, where he led the State Department 's efforts on Capitol Hill. He worke... ...who could walk back and forth between State Department and White House without taking too muc... ...connection between the White House and State Department that you describe useful when it come... ...had to really deliver on behalf of the State Department , and we were lucky in that regard. W... ...or nine months or so. It was just State Department nominees and ambassadoria... ...place. The budget was the second thing. State Department had been experiencing cuts over man... ...having him there really helped get that State Department budget back where it should be. Then... ...we had legislative priorities as well; State Department reform, Afghanistan, making sure we ha... ...receiving end of White House leg and State Department leg and DOD leg as they approac... ...I ended up leading that effort for the State Department in terms of negotiating not necessaril... Show more... Olsen Jean-Julien ...Recovery Project and asked the US Department of State and US Department of Defense to help... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Labor Labor go to the Native America Native America