Word: ambassadors
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...Staffers are coming and going at the White House in what it's irresistible to compare to a spring cleaning. Some will move on for good, long-planned opportunities, as Towey did. Others, it's been hinted, will be asked to leave. On Monday, the trade ambassador, Rob Portman, a well-liked former Republican Congressman from Ohio, moved over to be the President's budget director. Indeed, the new chief of staff, Josh Bolten, has made it clear that anybody who's thinking of leaving should do it soon. The resignation of Scott McClellan on Wednesday - along with expected announcements...
John Negroponte was recalled a year ago from Baghdad, where he served as ambassador to Iraq, to become America's spymaster. It's not easy to run the sprawling, $44 billion U.S. intelligence community, especially with powers that are in many ways less than his responsibilities--and Negroponte, 66, wants critics to know it's a work in progress. America's first director of national intelligence sat down in Washington for a progress check with TIME's Michael Duffy and Timothy J. Burger...
...Young Turks in the House that included Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush. Rumsfeld organized his pals into an informal club and served four terms before leaping to the Nixon White House. There he rose through various mid-level posts and became, within four years, NATO ambassador. He was always unconventional; even in the depths of that partisan era, he maintained a close friendship with Allard Lowenstein, the famed liberal organizer. Rumsfeld took Lowenstein to Republican conventions; Lowenstein returned the favor...
...holds the first of her day's audiences. A foreign ambassador is presenting his credentials. If it is the representative of a friendly power, Elizabeth chats graciously in English, or in serviceable French. If it is Andrei Gromyko, the interview is brief and formal. It may be a recently appointed bishop eager to discuss the problems of his new see, and Elizabeth as head of the church must be interested and informed. It may be a visiting Governor General from one of the Commonwealth nations, come for luncheon with his lady. Gourmet or no, the guest must face...
...region, and an essential element for security in the region,? Ghomi says if America stopped treating Tehran as an enemy it could deliver results ?in the sensitive geopolitical situation in the Middle East.? He also laid out a number of conditions necessary for the proposed talks with U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to proceed. Expecting the meeting to take place in Iraq, Ghomi says talks could not proceed without a representative of the Iraqi government present; he also said that an agenda had to be agreed on in advance and made public beforehand, ?not kept behind closed doors.? And he stressed...