Tom Donilon
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Tom Donilon is a seasoned diplomat and strategist with extensive experience in national security and foreign relations. This interview highlights his focus on coalition-building and the necessity of maintaining strong international partnerships in an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape.
“Intended to be. Yeah, the right way forward here, I don't think, was to send this letter scuttling the negotiation, the June 12th meeting. I think the right way forward would have been to say the following. And we didn't do this at the front end. We don't have the same understandings, evidently, with respect to what our goals are here.”
“I think if anyone kind of moves to the point that, well, we basically in the United States conduct our policies between the 40-yard lines, and maybe these elections don't make that much difference, and maybe an electing a president doesn't make that much difference who's president. That's wrong. And I think history has taught it wrong.”
“And of course, that wasn't always the case in the United States. That became the case during the late 19th century and the 20th century, where there was a lot of Irish participation in big city, in big city politics. It was no different in Providence. The Providence was...”
“Because it was the profession that I knew most about growing up in Providence, Rhode Island. And during the Carter years, though, a number of things happened.”
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