Friday, Oct. 20, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

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4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Foreign Service officers often serve for decades, carrying their knowledge and relationships from one administration to the next. But in just a few months, a new boss has fired or driven out many of the country’s most experienced diplomats. We look at the state of the State Department under Rex Tillerson. Guests: Jason Zengerle, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, who interviewed Mr. Tillerson for one of our other podcasts, “The New Washington”; Nancy McEldowney, a former Foreign Service officer. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:26.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:33.0	This is the Daily.
0:36.0	Today, foreign service agents often serve for decades, carrying their knowledge and relationships
0:46.3	from one administration to the next.
0:49.4	But in a few short months, a new boss has fired or driven out many of the country's
0:56.0	most experienced diplomats.
0:59.1	The state of the State Department under Rex Tillerson.
1:04.1	It's Friday, October 20th.
1:10.2	Jason Zangreli recently sat down with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
1:17.5	He's big.
1:19.5	He's somewhat, sort of, barely.
1:23.1	His hair is combed back in this kind of master of the universe style.
1:27.1	He's got this voice.
1:28.1	There's a lot of things going on.
1:30.1	He's just got this kind of deep baritone with this Texas accent.
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