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Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record

I've run out of room to discuss the other countries and will answer in a separate response. ... [Read More]

Interview by Richard Wolffe of Newsweek

SECRETARY POWELL: And I said to everybody at the table, and especially to Dominique de Villepin, I understand you're thinking about a second resolution; let's chat about it. The concern I have is, we must make sure there is nobody here who is expressing a willingness to vote for a first resolution when, at the time you're expressing your willingness to vote for a first resolution, you know that you will never vote for a second one. And so what we did was not let 1441 be written in a way that would put us into that trap. ... [Read More]

Civil Military Affairs and U.S. Diplomacy: The Changing Roles of the Regional Commanders-In-Chief (CINCs); Includes Question and Answer Session

What I discovered about the policy process is it works from the top down. Every State Department person knows this. You don't expect to know exactly what's going on in the White House situation room meeting, do you? But in J-5, I had 200-some officers working for me. There'd be somebody who was working the policy process on, let's say, Haiti and he would give his best input. I would write a paper; I'd take it up to Shalikashvili. Shalikashvili would take it to the White House, and there'd be a White House situation room meeting. He'd come back after the meeting; he'd be back at 5:30. There'd be a tank session, I'd be looking at my watch, is he going to tell me what happened, is he going to tell me what happened. He'd have to go to a social event right after that. ... [Read More]

Afghan Election Results Will Reflect Popular Will, Says Powell - US Department of State

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SECRETARY POWELL: It came out end of July. I don't recall seeing it at the time, but it was -- when I did finally read it carefully, after it got all the attention, it was essentially, you know, what I would have, you know, if the President and I were alone in a room talking about it is what I would have said to him, or something that I already had said to him over the course of our many conversations. ... [Read More]

Department of State Washington File: Transcript: President Clinton's Press Conference, February 16

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President Clinton, in an hour long press conference February 16 in the East Room of the White House, his first of 2000, said he had not ruled out including Pakistan on his upcoming trip to South Asia, scheduled for the week of March 20. ...

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think part of what makes the presidency aloof is that if you show up for work every day you don't have as much time to spend with people as you'd like. I think that -- I think technology will help some. I think this web chat I did earlier this week with Wolf Blitzer, where he asked me questions, but he also let a lot of other people ask questions -- I thought that was a good way to do it. ... [Read More]

Documents 145-165

/4/On December 30, Bundy asked the White House Situation Room to pass to General Clifton for President Kennedy at his residence in Palm Beach, Florida, telegram 286 from Baghdad and the following note from Bundy: "Jernegan's message seems persuasive to Komer and me, and with your approval I would like to press State Dept for action in this direction, using your interest as a stick. I would add that Dept should of course lay out a plan for action in cooperation with British if possible, but our own interests, oil and other, are very directly involved." (White House telegram CAP 5491-61, December 30, and attached note from Bundy to Situation Room; Kennedy Library, National Security Files, Country Series, Kuwait, 8/61-5/62) ... [Read More]