US Foreign Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Foreign Service Index / Organizations Transcripts Todd Stern ...except terrific Erica Thomas, who was a Foreign Service officer in our embassy in Beijing. S... Macon Phillips ...I would be matched up with a local Foreign Service officer, who spoke the language usuall... ...I think people would tell me it's where Foreign Service officers would go when they wer... Michelle Gavin ...[Edmund A. Walsh] School of Foreign Service , where she was also a Truman scholar... ...I went to Georgetown, to the School of Foreign Service , and I was incredibly intimidated. M... ...And at Georgetown, at the School of Foreign Service , you have to pass a foreign-languag... Patrick Gaspard ...the extraordinary community of Foreign Service officers, but also all of my ol... ...respect to the expertise of my Foreign Service officers at post and the hierarchy o... ...the talents, the capacity of the Foreign Service to the fullest extent and ha... Jane Lute ...does the State Department have, or the Foreign Service ? The intelligence community? Nothin... Michael McFaul ...typically the ambassador to Russia is a Foreign Service officer. Was this a risk that was kin... Jeffrey Feltman ...a lengthy and decorated career as a Foreign Service officer. Ambassador Feltman served a... ...of the Middle East. I looked at my Foreign Service career as more of an opportunity to d... ...the region. David then retired from the Foreign Service in late 2008, meaning that I was actin... ...he said, “Jeff, I've been in the Foreign Service for thirty years. I've waited my entir... ...tremendously inspiring speech for us as Foreign Service officers committed to mutuall... ...job. Lynn Pascoe, who was also a career Foreign Service officer, was the first American to hav... Show more... Daniel Russel ...came during a lengthy career in the US Foreign Service . Just to highlight a few of hi... ...correction. Everybody's path into the Foreign Service is different, I've learned over th... ...of mine, whose father was still in the Foreign Service , sent away for applications to tak... ...sent away for applications to take the Foreign Service exam and requested one for me as well... ...it and eventually was accepted into the Foreign Service . The rest is history. Did that frien... ...history. Did that friend end up in the Foreign Service as well? No. No, she didn't. Bu... ...But there are limits to how long a Foreign Service officer is allowed to stay overseas, s... ...at a dinner party hosted by a former Foreign Service officer and found myself seated next t... ...some dealings with when he was in the Foreign Service . He was much senior to me. He was ... ...and I think that certainly many of the Foreign Service officers that I worked with, but ... ...inconsiderable attraction in having a Foreign Service officer who came ready made with both ... ...performance art. It's not about me. The Foreign Service trains you as an officer in a styl... ...to your question.” That's the five-part Foreign Service answer. For Obama, you just had t... Show more... Jim Steinberg ...Department and both the career and the Foreign Service people, learned a lot from my time i... John Brennan ...them who had ambitions to go into the Foreign Service or the CIA or the FBI have decided t... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the East Wing East Wing