US Foreign Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Foreign Service Index / Organizations Transcripts Richard Verma ...nice three-week training program at the Foreign Service Institute, but really you're armed wit... Chuck Hagel ...as a professor at the Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown among othe... Evan Medeiros ...at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service . In this interview, we will not b... William Taylor ...lengthy career in public service. As a Foreign Service officer, he served as the U... ...Europe. Prior to his time in the Foreign Service , he spent five years as the specia... Michael Posner ...down, and it wasn't the place that a Foreign Service officer on the rise was going to put i... ...among the professionals in the Foreign Service . Africa has so many problems that ar... Arturo Valenzuela ...extraordinary ambassadors and career Foreign Service offices on which I relied for thei... Roberta Jacobson ...became a deputy chief of mission, not a Foreign Service officer. So I faced a bit of outcr... ...So I faced a bit of outcry from the Foreign Service union during that period. It taught m... ...background of a civil servant versus a Foreign Service officer in the training and approach? ... ...civil servants on policy issues, and my Foreign Service officer friends who don't have ver... ...process is really quite different. As a Foreign Service officer, no matter how old you are o... ...stay in the rest of your life. The Foreign Service is rank in person, like the military... ...highest compliment you can get from a Foreign Service officer, if you're a civil servant, i... ...a good friend and colleague, a career Foreign Service officer, is still. And he begins t... Show more... Jefferey DeLaurentis ...at the end of a lengthy career in the Foreign Service , which included appointments a... ...At the start of his career in the Foreign Service , in 1991 he served as a consula... ...really wasn't by design. I entered the Foreign Service with visions of Prague and Budapest an... ...interests. But, like many people in the Foreign Service , my first assignment was a surprise. ... ...that the best and the brightest of the Foreign Service suddenly wanted to come and work there... ...cadre of multilateral officers in the Foreign Service , and some of them have returned and s... ...was the spokesperson for AFSA, American Foreign Service Association, which is the union fo... ...Association, which is the union for Foreign Service officers, who was quoted that thi... Show more... Jake Sullivan ...a massive increase in the size of the Foreign Service and a dramatic increase in the numbe... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Education Education go to the Science Science go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Public Health Public Health