Jon Huntsman
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Jon Huntsman is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in diplomacy, governance, and business. This interview highlights his ability to navigate complex political landscapes and his commitment to fostering collaboration across divides.
“As sometimes is the case, maybe you underestimate how strongly people feel in the post-Lehman collapse world about things like immigration reform. We led the charge on Western states' immigration reform. I got together with Janet Napolitano, who was then governor of Arizona.”
“Well, I look back and I say, at least I pursued my love and life music, but it left me a class short that I had to make up later as I was moving to University of Utah But my dad particularly always pushed the idea that you pursue your passion in life with great vigor, energy, and enthusiasm.”
“And I'll tell you another interesting thing, David, going from Work in the most compartmented, complicated embassy anywhere in the world that of the U.S. mission in China, where you work literally and figuratively in a foreign language.”
“And we worked the precincts extraordinarily diligently. We went house by house, delegate by delegate, and you got to have a couple thousand to win. And we spent the better part of that year just hand-to-hand combat, just getting around and talking to people, conversation by conversation.”
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