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...Blinken would be the first secretary of state to meet Xi in China since Rex Tillerson visited in 2017, the first year of the Trump administration....
...Secretary of state Rex Tillerson concluded that his boss was a “fucking moron”; director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn, horrified that Trump’s view of the 2017 Charlottesville march featuring...
...Here George W Bush takes star billing. Learning perhaps from Reagan’s slander on trees, Bush sunnily observed: “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully”....
...George W Bush has never issued a mea maxima culpa for his botched war in Iraq....
...The California Gold Rush, which began when gold was discovered in Coloma in 1848 by James W Marshall, transformed the state. News of Marshall’s discovery drew thousands of people to California....
...I hold no candle for George W Bush — I think his presidency was in many ways catastrophic....
...of this kind undermines not only the credibility of the secretary of the Treasury but of the whole national security decision-making system,” said Dennis Wilder, who was the top Asia adviser to George W...
...Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state, was fired. HR McMaster, the former national security adviser, was, at best, constructively dismissed....
...Merely for having sat calmly through George H.W. Bush’s funeral on Wednesday, Donald Trump was hailed by some as having turned a more presidential page....
...Preceding presidents, including Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and George HW Bush, all gave just under a third of their positions to political appointees, according to AFSA data....
...Over the past year, this has allowed Mr Pompeo to restore some of the order that was lost in the department under Rex Tillerson, the former Exxon Mobil boss who was sacked by Mr Trump....
...The ouster of HR McMaster as national security adviser, and his replacement with John Bolton, the hawkish former George W Bush administration official, marks the latest in a series of exits by senior figures...
...There are exceptions: Rex Tillerson, who never hit it off with the president and was sacked on Tuesday, should not be expecting any late-night calls from the East Wing....
...HR McMaster, the former national security adviser, and Rex Tillerson, the former secretary of state, were taking a more hawkish public stance against Russia....
...Michael Singh, managing director at The Washington Institute and a former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council under George W Bush, said the question now was whether it...
...In the past few weeks, economic adviser Gary Cohn, secretary of state Rex Tillerson and national security adviser HR McMaster have all left....
...In the past few weeks, economic adviser Gary Cohn, secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Mr McMaster have all left the Trump administration....
...Rex Tillerson, the outgoing secretary of state, also tried to provide a counter-balancing voice to some of Mr Trump’s most hawkish impulses, notably on Iran....
...Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George W Bush have both visited the zone, as has Barack Obama, who described it as “freedom’s frontier” in 2012....
...Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, should conduct preliminary discussions to confirm Mr Kim’s seriousness....
...Speaking to reporters, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state, said the practical impact of the designation “may be limited”, but added that the move would “close a few additional loopholes”....
...Richard Painter, the chief ethics officer for George W Bush’s administration, tweeted that “Mr Bolton’s hiring is an invitation to war, perhaps nuclear war”....
...Mike Pompeo, another advocate of action against Iran, is also awaiting confirmation from Congress to take over as secretary of state from the sacked Rex Tillerson, a Mattis ally....
...If Trump can succeed where George W Bush and Bill Clinton failed (Barack Obama didn’t really try), his reputation will be sealed....
...“Despite potential talks, and irrespective of if they happen w/USA or S....
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