US Foreign Service - Obama Presidency Oral History Back US Foreign Service Index / Organizations Transcripts John Podesta ...can't substitute for that. I loved the Foreign Service officers. I loved the secretary. ... Geraldine Richmond ...by this sort of vagabond life that our Foreign Service officers do, and do amazingly well, an... Frank Rose ...was to go to the Georgetown School of Foreign Service . And guess what? I didn't get in. Bu... ...focused on advancing the careers of the Foreign Service , and the civil servants ar... ...The entire incentive structure for the Foreign Service is to work in the regional bureaus. Fo... ...always unable to recruit smart, young Foreign Service officers to come and work in th... ...if you're a young, up-and-coming Foreign Service officer, the incentive structure is fo... ...best people—whether they are political, Foreign Service , or civil service—working on the mos... ...the State Department, if you're a Foreign Service officer in the political cone, you'r... ...argument that, overall, did the average Foreign Service officer score higher on his or her SAT... Show more... Dan Feldman ...He did this by pulling in some career Foreign Service officers, there were a handful—in th... ...so there. And some of them were career Foreign Service officers that came in to do specifi... ...that the vast majority of people are Foreign Service officers or civil servants. And then... ...which he wanted to have a senior Foreign Service officer, which at that point was Pau... ...He had identified an up-and-coming Foreign Service officer who then afterwards became ou... ...that the principal deputy—the career Foreign Service officer—would be tied into the buildin... ...who was a civil servant, so not a Foreign Service officer, but had been a career perso... ...on the policy. But as a career Foreign Service officer, I think he also wanted to tr... ...So we really got among the best of the Foreign Service and civil servants across the building... Show more... Anthony Gardner ...year at Georgetown, at the School of Foreign Service . [Laughter] So somewhere, ... Andrew Herscowitz ...to Georgetown and joined the School of Foreign Service , I actually designed my own majo... Richard Nephew ...to replace one of their long-term Foreign Service officers with a civil servant and aske... Related Topics go to the Native America Native America go to the Financial Reform and Regulation Financial Reform and Regulation go to the Veterans Veterans go to the Transparency and Media Transparency and Media go to the Supreme Court Supreme Court