Thomas Friedman has an excellent column today giving his take on whether Clinton would be an effective Secretary of State. The key to any successful SoS, he says, is their relationship with the president.
Foreign leaders can spot daylight between a president and a secretary
of state from 1,000 miles away. They know when they’re talking to the
secretary of state alone and when they are talking through
the secretary of state to the president. And when they think they are
talking to the president, they sit up straight; and when they think
they are talking only to the secretary of state, they slouch in their
chairs. When they think they are talking to the president’s “special
envoy,” they doze off in midconversation...
... When it comes to appointing a secretary of state, you do not want a team of rivals.
Read the whole thing.
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