“As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At the end of the day, it's what America does, how people perceive us, in the long run, our reliability and such, and, thirdly, the personal relationships presidents have with their counterparts. The tweeting and some of the explosive conversations can hurt the third and can have an impact on the second, but, in the end, what we really should focus on is the policies. Some of them have been bad, the rollout of the immigration ban. Others, we have to wait and see.” PeopleLongRunningGuyWaitingPresidentHurtFocusPolicyQuietImmigrationPerceiveDiplomacy Author:James Franklin Jeffrey
“I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about doing some damage on the periphery of our core policies.” PresidentPolicy Author:James Franklin Jeffrey
“Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.” President Author:James Franklin Jeffrey
“There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark vision, of a 19th century world where great powers do transactional issues.” WorldRealPoliticalPresidentDarkVision19th CenturyGreat Power Author:James Franklin Jeffrey