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CLINTON CONFIRMATION: How Will She Run The State Department?

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have the culture, the morale and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s

Jul 31, 202082.8K Shares1.8M Views
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) asks how the department will have “the culture, the morale” and the resources necessary to succeed. Back to Adm. Mullen’s point.
Clinton picks up on it. “In consultation with the president-elect, the vice president-elect and the members of this committee” she decided to fill a long-vacant post, the deputy secretary for resources and management. “Because you get consumed by the crises of the moment.” So Jack Lewwill take that post. “I want you, as well as me, to have someone who is accountable and a point person.” It’s important that the argument not “stop” with the prospect of training diplomats — “we’ve got to have someone who will take charge of those issues … Putting the State Department on a sounder financial and management position.” He’ll have the portfolio to “take a look at what works, what doesn’t work, to eliminate redundancies and fill gaps,” particularly in U.S. development efforts, “which are often the way we are perceived” around the world.
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