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…rcement Officer Nick Gerry, Code Enforcement Officer Bryant Weymer, Code Enforcement Officer Raychel Houston, Recording Secretary Mr. Hoffman extended his welcome to the new members of the Board, Mr. Ballentine and Mr. Vanneck and congratulated Ms. Greenberg, Ms. Van Buren and M...

…’ s status as an adviser to you. Referring to his previous book, Plan of Attack, the New York Times then reported that “Secretary of State Colin Powell disputed Woodward’ s account....He said that he had an excellent relationship with Vice President Dick Cheney, and that he did n...

…law in mid- February "was not designed to work in four months -- it was designed to work over two years." U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said it was too soon to decide whether the U.S. economy needed the help of a second- round of government stimulus to recover from rec...

…al ban on providing “material support” to an FTO. To remove Hamas from the criminal law banning FTO support, either the secretary of state or Congress would have to revoke the designation of Hamas as an FTO -- a highly unlikely scenario. Should the Obama administration want to co...

…educe sanctions in exchange for Iranian concessions, the White House would have had to find a new candidate for defense secretary. It's the U.S. Congress that arguably holds the high cards, though the White House put them in its hands. The most potent sanctions are legislated, a...

…w Parliament and remains the biggest political counterweight to the military council. Jacob Walles, a deputy assistant secretary of state, met for the first time this week with the leaders of the Brotherhood’s newly formed Freedom and Justice Party at its new headquarters in Cai...

…y, as had become increasingly evident to the wider foreign policy and national security team, was the family’s pick for secretary of state after Rex Tillerson’s inevitable resignation. (Likewise, in this shuffle, Dina Powell would replace Haley at the UN.) The president had been...

…currency space. After a bit, Epstein invites his next appointment to join them: Larry Summers, the former treasury secretary and President of Harvard, off Diet Coke, digs deep into the Sheikh Hamad chocolates, then focuses in on the Bitcoin investor. “Okay,” he says, af...

…selves against currency undervaluations because, as part of this deal, there’s a very nice side deal agreement that the secretary of Treasury is negotiating over currency undervaluation,” Peter Navarro, a top trade adviser, told NPR in March. Mr. Navarro added that the currency a...

…erved. During the 2016 presidential race, Mr. Trump repeatedly harped on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private account as secretary of state, making it a centerpiece of his campaign and using it to paint her as untrustworthy. ““We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the...

…g miracle for children around the world. “Nobbs” whisked me off to the British Film Reception hosted by Jeremy Hunt, UK Secretary of State for Culture and Olympics and the British Consul-General Dame Barbara Hay, in her Hancock Park residence. Upon introduction, I blurted out tha...

…es with Chinese officials, especially after it was announced that National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger were also in Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders and that the two had made an earlier secret trip in July, soon after...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked Turkey to agree to the postponement of the announcement of the report to late September. But the report was leaked

too. She’s big on feedback—an intranet “Secretary’s Sounding Board” is bringing the suggestion box into the modern age. She gets high marks from the high-tech community for “21st-century statecraft” like using texting to raise money for Haiti-earthquake victims and an Internet fr...

…Vice President, AstraZeneca MR. GREGORY SIMON President, Biden Cancer Initiative, Biden Foundation DR. GÖRAN K. HANSSON Secretary General, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences DR. CANAN DAGDEVIREN Assistant Professor, Wearable Electronics, MIT Media Lab MR. OLA ROSLING Chairman,...