US Foreign Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Foreign Service Index / Organizations Transcripts Ricardo Zúniga ...service officer, having joined the Foreign Service in 1993. He is currently serving as ... ...was not interested in joining the Foreign Service as a teenager because I lived with ... ...teenager because I lived with a lot of Foreign Service kids, or went to school with them, an... ...to work on. It had a reputation in the Foreign Service during my entire career as a graveyar... ...that inspired you to go into the Foreign Service . You talked about it particularly i... William Burns ...Burns Ambassador Burns retired from the Foreign Service in 2014 at the rank of caree... ...ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service , after a decorated diplomatic career... ...positions that you held, even by most Foreign Service officers' standards. So I wondered... ...half decades as a career diplomat as a Foreign Service officer, and like most Foreign Servic... ...Foreign Service officer, and like most Foreign Service officers split my time between servin... ...Ambassador Burns retired from the Foreign Service in 2014 at the rank of caree... ...ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service , after a decorated diplomatic caree... ...years by that point or more in the Foreign Service , how much I had to learn. And the... ...Ambassador Burns retired from the Foreign Service in 2014 at the rank of caree... ...ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service , after a decorated diplomatic caree... Show more... Mark Lippert ...the real answer is because the Foreign Service was really squeezed and they weren'... Anne-Marie Slaughter ...And I'd been giving that lecture at the Foreign Service Institute every chance I could to ne... Ryan Crocker ...had a lengthy and decorated career as a Foreign Service officer, which culminated in hi... ...that, in his thirty-seven years in the Foreign Service , he served in a variety of positions... ...that led you to pursue a career in the Foreign Service ? I had the privilege of growing u... ...in Izmir. So I knew there was a Foreign Service —pretty vague on what it did. Tha... ...I could think of. I took the Foreign Service exam, and that came through. [I] wa... ...of understand the world, but seeing the Foreign Service as a place that is a conduit fo... ...with a kind of a corridor reputation— Foreign Service is not that big—of “I'm the guy to sen... ...period for you as you retire from the Foreign Service and become dean of the Bush School... ...as I think most retired senior Foreign Service officers do, that when you're retired... ...Probably not what you intended in the Foreign Service , which was not just to be sent t... Show more... Colin Kahl ...Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service , and a senior fellow at the Center fo... ...but then transferred to the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown and in that capacity—i... Johnnie Carson ...of a thirty-seven-year career in the US Foreign Service , which included ambassadorships t... ...and abroad. Before joining the Foreign Service , Ambassador Carson was a Peace Corp... ...and really interesting career in the Foreign Service . But I wonder, as you look bac... ...and had resigned, retired, from the Foreign Service in 2006, had been asked by senio... ...or thirty-eight years in the Foreign Service , three ambassadorial posts, twic... ...on the Hill. They may have been former Foreign Service officers. They may have bee... ...by that? As I said, I had left the Foreign Service . And I'll say it here—I don't say i... ...wait no longer. I retired from the Foreign Service . I immediately had been offered ... ...Lyman, my colleague Dane Smith, another Foreign Service officer, both of those folks brough... Show more... James Jones ...Georgetown University School of Foreign Service . I was seriously considering a caree... ...seriously considering a career in the Foreign Service ; I just joined a different kind o... ...I just joined a different kind of Foreign Service . When did you learn that you wer... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Labor Labor go to the Hawaii Hawaii go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation