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My own favorite quote is from Michael Gove, currently Britain’s environment
secretary.
Just prior to the June 2016 Brexit referendum, Gove, who was justice
secretary
in David Cameron’s government at the time, dismissed the all-but-unanimous view of economists and others that a decision to leave the European Union would deeply damage the British economy.
Moreover, they left in shock in realizing Yam, and the financial secretary, Donald Tsang, nominally his boss but without real power, didn’t really understand the experts’ economic reasoning.
Meanwhile, the governor of California rejects the use of federal rescue funds to keep Mississippi’s banks afloat, while the
secretary
of the California Department of Finance declares that Mississippi voters must decide whether or not to keep the dollar.
James Baker was arguably the most successful
secretary
of state since Henry Kissinger.
Not coincidentally, Bush’s administration included ten of the 25 signatories of the PNAC founding statement of principles, including Dick Cheney as vice president and Donald Rumsfeld as
secretary
of defense.
One hopes that the Trump administration – particularly the incoming
secretary
of state, Mike Pompeo – will heed these lessons as tensions with Iran heat up.
What Bush’s defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, called “new Europe” – the post-communist NATO allies and European Union members – depended on hundreds of billions of dollars in investment.
Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first US defense
secretary
to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter’s administration.
The senator from New York has become President Barack Obama’s
secretary
of state.
In the hours that follow, she convinces Obama not to bow to his anti-interventionist
secretary
of defense, Robert Gates.
And then, in 1790-1791, Alexander Hamilton, America’s first treasury secretary, resolved the crisis in one of history’s nation-building successes.
White House press
secretary
Sean Spicer was the first to throw in the towel – after barely six months on the job.
Indeed, the conventional wisdom in the US is that Mexico policy regarding illegal immigration and drugs will be the province of the new Homeland Security secretary, Janet Napolitano (herself a former border state governor).
Either way, Europhobes such as Liam Fox, May’s trade secretary, will denounce any deal as a Cameron-style sellout, and push for a “pure,” off-the-cliff Brexit.
Indeed, he has even offered to send Boris Johnson, the UK’s foreign secretary, a copy of the Treaty of Lisbon, where that link is established.
Prime Minister David Cameron – who previously cultivated close ties with News Corporation leaders, even employing as his press
secretary
The News of the World’s former editor, who was recently arrested for his role in the scandal – called the phone hacking “disgusting.”
Last February, Modi again initiated a thaw, calling Sharif to wish his country luck in the Cricket World Cup, and dispatching his foreign
secretary
to Islamabad.
Fadela Amara, the manager of an NGO that defends women’s right, is a
secretary
of state for city management.
I heard the usual suspects – including a former treasury
secretary
who had been particularly vociferous in such admonishments during the East Asia crisis – bang on about the need for transparency at sovereign wealth funds (though not at American or European hedge funds).
As a former home secretary, security is clearly her strong suit, and she has now gone a long way toward repairing her tattered authority in Parliament.
NATO’s purpose, in the blunt phrase of its first
secretary
general, Lord Hastings Ismay, was to “keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down.”
The US government regarded non-alignment with distaste;Eisenhower’s
secretary
of state, John Foster Dulles, notoriously declared that “neutrality between good and evil is itself evil.”
The economic policies of the 1990s might have taken a different path if Bill Clinton had listened more to his labor secretary, Robert Reich, an academic and progressive policy advocate, and less to his Treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, a former Goldman Sachs executive.
In April, Britain’s
secretary
of state for international development, Priti Patel, equated Kiir’s “scorched earth policy” and tribal targeting to acts of genocide.
President George W. Bush sided with his vice president, Dick Cheney, in denying that a global-warming problem even exists (his treasury secretary, Paul O’Neill, and his administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Christine Whitman, disagreed).
Obama’s last defense secretary, Ash Carter, has criticized his former boss’s soft approach toward China.
Paul Volcker, a Democrat, was reappointed once by the Reagan administration (but not twice: there are persistent rumors that Reagan’s treasury secretary, James Baker, thought Volcker was too invested in monetary stability and not invested enough in producing strong economies in presidential years to elect Republicans).
Bo Xilai Between the Dragon and His WrathLONDON – After a year of unexplained delay, the trial of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party
secretary
of Chongqing municipality, is finally about to begin.
If Trump’s health
secretary
succeeds in undoing the careful balancing act that underlies Obamacare, either costs will rise or services will deteriorate – most likely both.
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