Monday, August 08, 2005

Interesting fact about US Secretary of States

“Secretaries of States … have the world at their fingertips with ambassador and the Foreign Service reporting … from more than 200 countries and international organizations.”
- Lee Hamilton

Alexander Haig
“General Haig was enormously talented, but he was not a team player.”
- Lee Edward

George Shultz
“Mr. Shultz took what President Reagan liked to call his simple ideas and got down to
the business of implementing them.”
- Howard LaFranchi

“The Shultz tenure is considered by many experts as the golden years of American diplomatic corps …”
- Howard LaFranchi

James Baker
“… Preferred on the other hand to work with a coterie of closed advisers and largely disregarded the rest.”
- Howard LaFranchi

“The last secretary of State to have had such a close relationship to a president was James Baker…”
- Karl Inderfurth


Warren Christopher
“… Was a brilliant negotiator, he just wasn’t the best communicator.”
- James Steinberg

Further Reading
www.csmonitor.com

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