Hints and tips:
...“I’m not sure traditional grand strategy is the most valuable commodity,” says Strobe Talbott, head of the Brookings Institution....
...In Mr Woodward’s book, Bob Gates, the US defence secretary, is quoted as saying Mr Donilon’s elevation would be a “disaster”....
...“For the time being the populist wave is over, because it has been crystallised in the Dodd-Frank legislation,” says Scott Talbott at the Financial Services Roundtable, a lobby group....
...The Fed had appeared to be enjoying a surprising political renaissance when the proposal, which emerged after talks between Mr Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, and Bob Corker, his Republican...
...Possible “team players” include Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state, and John Hamre, a former deputy secretary of defence under Mr Clinton, who is tipped as a possible Pentagon chief....
...“John Bolton’s attacks on the deal were worth 10 endorsements,” said Strobe Talbott, head of the Brookings Institution and a former deputy secretary of state....
...“Bob Gates is a broad-gauged and highly experienced professional who can only be doing this out of a sense of patriotism,” said Strobe Talbott, head of the centrist Brookings Institution....
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