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Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, seemingly abandons the United States’ strong-dollar policy but then re-embraces it.
While nothing prevents Xi from retaining a party title, such as general secretary, he will need to amend the constitution if he wants to remain China’s head of state.
The son of a renowned historian who served as the personal
secretary
of Zeev Jabotinski, the founder of the Zionist right, Netanyahu absorbed from childhood his father’s interpretation of Jewish history as a series of tragedies.
Around midnight, the door opened and the
secretary
asked my father to take a phone call.
And, despite the mention of a new, enlarged agreement with Iran, Trump continues to embrace the radical visions of his new
secretary
of state, Mike Pompeo, and national security adviser, John Bolton.
The United States vetoed reelection, advocated by France, of UN
Secretary
General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, arguing that it wanted to "enlarge the role" of the general
secretary
in reforming the world body.
Moreover, this summer, the writer and literary critic Sarah Danius became the first woman in 200 years to serve as the permanent
secretary
of the Swedish Academy, which chooses the Nobel laureate in literature.
Russians would rather have a “father of the nation,” no matter the title – czar, general secretary, president, or prime minister – than follow laws and rules.
He forced out his competent chief secretary, Anson Chan, a veteran Hong Kong civil servant, for her colonial background, thereby signaling his mistrust of the entire civil service that the British had created.
But even a figure like British Prime Minister John Major, who was fast-tracked to the top, served as a junior social services minister, foreign secretary, and chancellor of the exchequer before taking over the premiership.
Some said that perhaps he would be another Robert McNamara, the US defense
secretary
who helped mire America in the Vietnam War, but used his service to the Bank as penance.
His
secretary
of state, Hillary Clinton, underscored this tendency during her first visit to China, where her unmistakeable message was that order and stability take priority over liberty and human rights.
For example, leaders like Boris Johnson, now Britain’s foreign secretary, declared that the £350 million ($465 million) supposedly paid weekly to the EU (a deeply flawed figure that fails to take into account the benefits received) would be redirected to the National Health Services.
Provided that he is better at law than at typing, he should specialize in law and leave his
secretary
to do the typing.
Early on, Treasury
secretary
Robert Rubin persuaded him to concentrate on deficit reduction, scrapping a middle class tax cut and planned public investment initiatives.
In the wake of the Brexit decision, Cameron’s hapless successor, Theresa May, has been caught between the demands of Brexiteers like her erstwhile foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for “control of our borders” and the fears of the Remainers concerning the economic and political consequences of leaving.
Carter had difficulty choosing between the muscular line of his national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and the more moderate approach of his
secretary
of state, Cyrus Vance.
The Palestinian Authority’s president, senior diplomats of the countries involved in the Palestine-Israel peace process, and the
secretary
general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation all attended the two-day summit.
Among them was a hotline to the first
secretary
of the Polish Communist Party.
"If the first
secretary
of the Communist Party wants to talk to me," I said, "he can call me on the normal phone."
Similarly, Clinton’s treasury secretary, Robert Rubin, and IMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus were attacked for committing public money to bail out New York banks that had loaned to feckless East Asians in 1997-1998.
Then, in the 1990’s, the government abandoned negotiations when the FARC assassinated a former
secretary
of state.
But now that public figures – especially those deemed to be “of interest” to intelligence agencies – are susceptible to being watched three-dimensionally, the chances of being compromised are far higher than they were in the days of the UK’s Profumo affair, which brought down a British defense
secretary
in the early 1960’s.
Indeed, had he been appointed in late 1992 for longer than the interregnum between the Bush and Clinton administrations, he arguably would have been the best
secretary
of state the US ever had.
While the “Leave” camp certainly included many hard Brexiteers whose primary motivation was to end free movement, it also comprised people who believed Boris Johnson, the former London mayor and current foreign secretary, when he promised (as he still does) that the UK could have its cake and eat it.
In June 2006, William Perry, a former defense secretary, and Ashton Carter, a future one, argued in The Washington Post that if North Korea deployed on its territory a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the US, the US should attack and destroy it.
The promises by former foreign
secretary
Boris Johnson, the chief Brexit campaigner, were even more fulsome: Britons would have complete freedom to live, work, and study throughout Europe; untrammeled access to the EU single market; and full participation in whatever political institutions a post-Brexit government might feel like cherry-picking from the EU orchard.
Dean Acheson, the US
secretary
of state who was an architect of NATO and the Marshall Plan, famously noted that Britain in the twentieth century lost an empire and never found a new international role.
The Pakistan ConundrumNEW YORK – Harold Brown, the US defense
secretary
under President Jimmy Carter, was reported to have described the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union in these terms: “When we build, they build.
But, in many ways, Hu Jintao’s tenure as the head of the fourth generation of Communist leaders, which began when he became party
secretary
in 2002, differs sharply from that of his mentor.
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