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It was the highest-level direct contact between the United States and Iran in the last six years, and made him the first U.S. Secretary of State to have met with his Iranian counterpart since 1979 Iranian Revolution. [173] [174] [175] Kerry was the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba since 1945.
All of the former candidates for the nomination endorsed Kerry. On September 29, John Eisenhower , the son of the former Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower , endorsed Kerry in the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper, saying that the Republican Party of today "is one with which I am totally unfamiliar". [ 47 ]
Hillary Clinton had announced she would not stay on in a second Obama term. Obama nominated Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts as his Secretary of State. On January 29, 2013, John Kerry was confirmed by the Senate in a 94–3 vote to be Secretary of State. [39] John Kerry took office on February 1, 2013.
To evade reporters, Kerry interviewed Edwards at former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's home in Washington D.C. [3] [4] Alyssa Mastromonaco, who would later serve as White House Deputy Chief of Staff under President Barack Obama, organized Kerry's meetings with the candidates. [5]
The department is trying to walk back comments the secretary of state made about conflict in Syria last month. State Department officials are 'baffled' by John Kerry's latest comments that have ...
Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, is also a top secretary of state contender whose policies hew closely to those of Trump. Like Hagerty, he was a ...
The 1984 United States Senate election in Massachusetts was held on November 6, to elect a member of the U.S. Senate from the State of Massachusetts.The election was won by Democrat John Kerry, the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, who remained Senator until 2013, when he resigned to become United States Secretary of State.
Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday urged a new look at global trade rules, calling the existing mediator of trade disputes, the World Trade Organization, "neutered." Kerry, who ...