Comments on: State Department Watch: Fed up with Bush? http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/08/19/state-department-watch-fed-up-with-bush/ Bringing diplomacy back, girl. Those other countries don't know how to act. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Digger http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/08/19/state-department-watch-fed-up-with-bush/#comment-537 Digger Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:34:46 +0000 http://www.undiplomatic.net/?p=401#comment-537 I have linked to your entry here: http://lifeafterjerusalem.blogspot.com/2008/08/former-diplomats-endorsing-obama.html I have linked to your entry here: http://lifeafterjerusalem.blogspot.com/2008/08/former-diplomats-endorsing-obama.html

]]> By: MB http://www.undiplomatic.net/2008/08/19/state-department-watch-fed-up-with-bush/#comment-534 MB Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:51:11 +0000 http://www.undiplomatic.net/?p=401#comment-534 Charles, Regarding your statement, "Ironically, since the Eisenhower years, only two Secretaries of State have had a genuinely close working relationship with their President: Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice." Think you missed another example - James Baker had an exceptionally close working relationship with President George H.W. Bush. Too often, their close collaboration at the end of the Cold War is given short shrift. Charles,

Regarding your statement, “Ironically, since the Eisenhower years, only two Secretaries of State have had a genuinely close working relationship with their President: Henry Kissinger and Condoleezza Rice.”

Think you missed another example - James Baker had an exceptionally close working relationship with President George H.W. Bush. Too often, their close collaboration at the end of the Cold War is given short shrift.

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