Books have been and will be written about the multifaceted career of Hillary Rodham Clinton: Life magazine cover girl and Wellesley student body president; Yale-educated ...
Steinberg literally wrote the book on presidential transitions. In Difficult Transitions: Foreign Policy Troubles at the Outset of Presidential Power, he and co-author Kurt Campbell ...
Lew talks like a man who's been on duty years, not months; he calmly ignores the "ping" of e-mail piling up amid the American antiques ...
For Tauscher, a pre-eminent Capitol Hill national security wonk and deal-maker, the shift to Foggy Bottom is a logical continuum. Although a jarring move personally--not ...
Otero has known Hillary Rodham Clinton since the mid-1990s, when she accompanied the then-first lady on a trip to Bolivia, Otero's native country. The 58-year-old ...
A career Foreign Service officer, Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate during the previous administration for a post that makes him responsible for everything from ...
From his father, a career Army officer who attained the rank of major general, Burns inherited a belief in public service. As a Marshall scholar ...
McHale, 64, the former CEO of Discovery Communications, becomes the latest in a series of big names to hold the job of U.S. image-maker-in-chief, including ...
Ask Africa experts to describe Carson, a career diplomat, and the word you keep hearing is "gentleman." "I've never heard of anybody who hates him, ...
Campbell has displayed a penchant for good timing. After five years heading the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he ...
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