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Within the Obama administration, Power advocated for military intervention in Libya during the Libyan Civil War on humanitarian grounds. [39] With then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and UN ambassador Susan Rice, Power lobbied Obama to pursue a UN Security Council resolution authorizing an international coalition force to protect Libyan ...
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a leading moderate Republican who lost his seat in the United States Senate to John F. Kennedy in the 1952 elections, was appointed ambassador to the United Nations in 1953 by Dwight D. Eisenhower in gratitude for the defeated senator's role in the new president's defeat of conservative leader Robert A. Taft for the 1952 Republican nomination and subsequent service as ...
Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American diplomat, policy advisor, and public official. As a member of the Democratic Party, Rice served as the 22nd director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023, as the 27th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, and as the 23rd U.S. national security advisor from 2013 to 2017.
On December 1, 2008, President-elect Obama announced that he would nominate Rice to be the United States ambassador to the United Nations. Rice was the first black woman named to be US envoy to UN. Rice meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 2014
United States ambassador to the United Nations: January 27, 1993 January 21, 1997 Harriet C. Babbitt: United States ambassador to the Organization of American States: April 12, 1993 November 30, 1997 Jeanette W. Hyde: United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: April 14, 1994 January 31, 1998 Mary Ann Casey
Congressional Democrats issued scathing statements aimed at Obama after the US abstained from voting in a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
On December 1, 2008, she was nominated by President-elect Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, [70] [87] a position which he also upgraded to cabinet level. [212] Rice is the second youngest [212] and the first African American woman US Representative to the UN. [213] Dr.
Ambassador Lane in 2014. Lane was nominated by President Barack Obama on April 16, 2012, to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. [6] The United States Senate confirmed Ambassador Lane on May 24, 2012. [6] He was officially sworn into the position on July 19, 2012. [12]