Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spends his first weeks isolated from an anxious bureaucracy
Source: MSN/Washington Post
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson takes a private elevator to his palatial office on the seventh floor of the State Department building, where sightings of him are rare on the floors below.
On many days, he blocks out several hours on his schedule as “reading time,” when he is cloistered in his office poring over the memos he prefers ahead of in-person meetings.
Most of his interactions are with an insular circle of political aides who are new to the State Department. Many career diplomats say they still have not met him, and some have been instructed not to speak to him directly — or even make eye contact.
On his first three foreign trips, Tillerson skipped visits with State Department employees and their families, embassy stops that were standard morale-boosters under other secretaries of state.
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He is up to his ears in deep shit,,,with Russia promises and Donald Duck oaths...
it has no place in gov't or corporations!!!! It's all so out of control
for Exxon and Putin. Beyond that, he has neither interest nor experience.
How telling that the head of the State Department isn't a people person.
Why, it'd be like putting a dairy farmer at the helm of a congressional intelligence committee....oh, wait...
who was the intermediary?
