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The Treaty Room as decorated by Ken Blasingame during the administration of George W. Bush.

Floor plan of the White House second floor showing location of the Treaty Room.

West wall of the Treaty Room during the Clinton administration showing the overmantel mirror.

The Treaty Room as decorated by Stéphane Boudin during the administration of John F. Kennedy The printed borders reproduce the wallpaper in the room where Lincoln died at the Petersen House.

The Treaty Room is located on the second floor of the White House, the official residence of the President of the United States. The room is a part of the first family's private apartments and is used as a study by the president.

Before construction of the West Wing of the White House, working offices were located on the east side of the second floor. The Treaty Room has been used as a waiting room, a cabinet room, and the president's office. President Andrew Johnson used the room for his cabinet meetings. Ulysses S. Grant continued this use and acquired a large Renaissance Revival style table to be used by his cabinet. The table remained in the room for many years, and President William McKinley oversaw the signing of the peace treaty with Spain which concluded the Spanish-American War on it on August 12, 1898.

Old engravings, photographs and stereographs show a succession of ornate printed wall and ceiling papers, highly figured axminster carpets, and ornate gas lighting fixtures. During the administration of Theodore Roosevelt this room was greatly simplified as a part of an overall refurbishment of the house directed by Charles Follen McKim. Victorian decoration was removed, and the underlying wood floor was exposed. Low bookcases were constructed, and the room began use as the president's in-residence study.

During the administration of Herbert Hoover, the room was used as a parlor or sitting room and was termed the Monroe Room. James Monroe's French Empire center table was moved to the room, and a copy of the desk he signed the Monroe Doctrine upon was placed in the room. Additional efforts were made during the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to furnish the room somewhat as it might have been when the house was built. Following the Truman reconstruction of the White House, the room was furnished by the interior design department of the New York department store B. Altman and Company. Nearly all the furniture was contemporary, generally in a traditional style.

During the administration of John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy worked with Stéphane Boudin of the House of Jansen to create a room that would represent a part of the house's Victorian era history. A palette of deep greens, burgundy and gold was adopted. President Grant's table was returned to the room along with an electrified gas chandelier once located in the East Room. The walls recreated a mid-nineteenth century treatment of ornamental frames of decorative paper based on the wallpaper in the room Abraham Lincoln was taken to and died in, in a house opposite Ford's Theater. A large gilded Rococo Revival overmantel mirror, with an American shield, which had once been hung in the Green Room was installed. Theobald Chartran's painting Signing of the Peace Protocol Between Spain and the United States, August 12, 1898 was hung in the room along with copies of several treaties signed at the White House. Drapery was based on a design of Lincoln's era. President Kennedy signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the room in 1963. Boudin's design survived into the administration of George H. W. Bush who had the room painted a light green and simple printed chintz curtains installed.

During the administration of Bill Clinton interior designer Kaki Hockersmith furnished the room in a mix of late American Empire and Victorian. Walls were covered with a simulated leather of a deep claret red and a gilded chandelier with an American eagle, one of several purchased during Theodore Roosevelt's administration for the residence and West Wing, was hung.

During the administration of George W. Bush, interior designer Ken Blasingame had the walls painted off-white, replaced the Clinton drapery with simple panels of olive green velvet hung on wooden poles, and replaced the Empire style chandelier with an electrified Victorian crystal gasolier. The Treaty Room is also home to The Peacemakers, a large oil painting depicting President Lincoln in the final months of the Civil War.

Bush addressed the nation from the Treaty Room on October 7, 2001, announcing that the War in Afghanistan had begun. In his memoirs Decision Points, Bush referred to the Treaty Room as "...one of my favorite places in the White House."

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• White House Web site
• White House Museum: Treaty Room

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Mark H. Gitenstein. Official U.S. State Department photo

Mark Henry Gitenstein is the United States Ambassador to Romania. He was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 11, 2009 ^[1] and confirmed by the United States Senate on July 8, 2009.^[2]

Gitenstein is of Romanian heritage, as his grandparents were immigrants from Botoșani,^[3] Romania in the late 19th century.^[4][5] He went to high school at the private Indian Springs School in Indian Springs, Alabama, graduating in 1964.^[6] He is married to Elizabeth (Libby) Gitenstein and has three children and two grandsons.^[7]

He was previously a law partner at Mayer Brown, beginning in 1989^[8] and a "nonresident senior fellow" at the Brookings Institution.^[9] He was also on the advisory board for president-elect Barack Obama's presidential transition team.^[10] He was named as a leading choice to lead the Office of Legal Policy in the Department of Justice.,^[11] but was rejected after public reports of his extensive work as a registered lobbyist for the US Chamber of Commerce. .^[12]

Prior to his work at Mayer Brown, Gitenstein served as Chief Counsel (1987–1989) and Minority Chief Counsel (1981–1987) to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, serving under then-Senator Joe Biden. Gitenstein also served as Counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (1975–1978).^[8] He attended Duke University and Georgetown Law School.

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Susan Rice
27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Incumbent
Assumed office January 22, 2009
President	Barack Obama
Secretary-General	Ban Ki-Moon
Preceded by	Zalmay Khalilzad
12th Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs of the United States
In office October 9, 1997 – January 20, 2001
President	Bill Clinton
Secretary	Madeleine Albright
Preceded by	George Moose
Succeeded by	Walter Kansteiner
Personal details
Born	Susan Elizabeth Rice (1964-11-17) November 17, 1964 (age 47) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Democratic Party
Spouse(s)	Ian Cameron (1992–present)
Children	2
Alma mater	Stanford University New College, Oxford

Susan Elizabeth Rice (born November 17, 1964) is an American diplomat, former think tank fellow, and civil servant. She is an American foreign policy advisor and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Rice served on the staff of the National Security Council and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during President Bill Clinton's second term. Rice was confirmed as UN Ambassador by the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent on January 22, 2009.^[1]

Early life and education[link]

Rice was born in Washington, D.C. ^[2] Her father, Emmett J. Rice (1919–2011), was a Cornell University economics professor and governor of the Federal Reserve System.^[2] Her mother is education policy scholar Lois Dickson Fitt, currently at the Brookings Institution. Her brother, John Rice, received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and is the founder of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (an organization committed to developing top minority talent for leadership roles in the business and non-profit sector). She is not related to Condoleezza Rice.^[3][4]

Rice was a three-sport athlete, student council president, and valedictorian at National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C., a private day girls' school.^[5] She played point guard in basketball and directed the offense, acquiring the nickname "Spo," short for "Sportin'."^[5]

Her parents always told her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage." As a young girl she says she "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. Senator from the District of Columbia."^[2] She also held "lingering fears" that her accomplishments would be diminished by people who attributed them to affirmative action.^[2]

Rice attended Stanford University, where she received a Truman Scholarship, and graduated with a B.A. in history in 1986. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.^[6][7]

Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, Rice attended New College, Oxford, where she earned a M.Phil. in 1988 and D.Phil. in 1990. The Chatham House-British International Studies Association honored her dissertation titled "Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe, 1979-1980: Implication for International Peacekeeping" as the UK's most distinguished in international relations.^[2][8]

Rice's classmates and professors at Oxford included advocates of the role of the United Nations and international law (Sir Adam Roberts, Benedict Kingsbury),^[9] of global economic governance and international economic cooperation (Ngaire Woods, Donald Markwell),^[10] and of a firm stance against Russian authoritarianism (Michael McFaul).^[11]

Marriage, family and early career[link]

Rice married ABC News producer Ian Officer Cameron (born in Victoria, British Columbia)^[12] in 1992 in Washington, DC at a chapel in The National Cathedral. They met as students at Stanford.^[13] They have two children.^{[5][6][14][15]}

Rice was a foreign policy aide to Michael Dukakis during the 1988 presidential election. She was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, the global management consulting firm, in the early 1990s.^[16] While at McKinsey, Rice was affiliated with the firm's Toronto office where she and her husband lived for a time.^[17]

Susan Rice was viewed by many officials and diplomats as very bright, but also as inexperienced and inflexible.^[18] Rice was considered^{[by whom?]} "young, brilliant, and ambitious" and she worked to "integrate Africa in the global economy while at the same time aiming to increase U.S. national security";^[2] even as she was criticized by detractors who considered her "authoritarian, brash, and unwilling to consider opinions that differ[ed] from her own". Reportedly, the young Rice engaged in various disputes involving career diplomats within the State Department's African bureau.^[2][5]

Clinton administration roles[link]

Rice served in the Clinton administration in various capacities: at the National Security Council from 1993 to 1997; as Director for International Organizations and Peacekeeping from 1993 to 1995; and as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs from 1995 to 1997.

At the time of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Rice reportedly said, "If we use the word 'genocide' and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November [congressional] election?" Rice subsequently acknowledged the mistakes made at the time and felt that a debt needed repaying.^[19] The inability or failure of the Clinton administration to do anything about the genocide would inform her later views on possible military interventions.^[20] She would later say of the experience: "I swore to myself that if I ever faced such a crisis again, I would come down on the side of dramatic action, going down in flames if that was required."^[21]

Rice supported the multinational force that invaded Zaire from Rwanda in 1996 and overthrew dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, saying privately that "Anything's better than Mobutu." Others criticized the U.S. complicity in the violation of the Congo's borders as destabilizing and dangerous.^[18]

In a 2002 op-ed piece in the Washington Post, former Ambassador to Sudan Timothy M. Carney and news contributor Mansoor Ijaz implicated Rice and counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke in missing an opportunity to neutralize Osama bin Laden while he was still in Sudan in 1996. They write that Sudan and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were ready to cooperate on intelligence potentially leading to Bin Laden, but that Rice and Clarke persuaded National Security Advisor Sandy Berger to overrule Albright.^[22] Similar allegations have been made by Vanity Fair contributing editor David Rose^[23] and Richard Miniter, author of Losing Bin Laden, in a November 2003 interview with World.^[24]

While the writings of Carney, Ijaz, Rose and Miniter each claim that Sudan offered to turn Bin Laden over to the US and that Rice was central in the decision not to accept the offer, The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (the 9-11 Commission) concluded in part "Sudan's minister of defense, Fatih Erwa, has claimed that Sudan offered to hand Bin Laden over to the United States. The Commission has found no credible evidence that this was so. Ambassador Carney had instructions only to push the Sudanese to expel Bin Laden. Ambassador Carney had no legal basis to ask for more from the Sudanese since, at the time, there was no indictment outstanding."^[25]

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has been a longtime mentor and family friend to Rice. Albright urged Clinton to appoint Rice as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in 1997.^[2] Rice was not the first choice of Congressional Black Caucus leaders, who considered Rice a member of "Washington's assimilationist black elite".^[2] At a confirmation hearing chaired by Senator Jesse Helms, Rice, who attended the hearing along with her infant son, whom she was then nursing, made a great impression on Senators from both parties and "sailed through the confirmation process".^[2] Rice was Assistant Secretary for African Affairs until Clinton left office in 2001.

On July 7, 1998, while serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Rice was a member of an American delegation to visit detained Nigerian President-Elect Basorun M.K.O. Abiola. During this meeting, Abiola had a heart attack^[26] which caused his death.

Business and think tank activities[link]

Rice was managing director and principal at Intellibridge from 2001 to 2002.^[27][28] In 2002, she joined the Brookings Institution as senior fellow in the Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development program. At Brookings, she focused on U.S. foreign policy, weak and failing states, the implications of global poverty, and transnational threats to security. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Rice served as a foreign policy adviser to John Kerry.

Rice went on leave from the Brookings Institution to serve as a senior foreign policy advisor to Senator Barack Obama in his 2008 presidential campaign. On November 5, 2008, Rice was named to the advisory board of the Obama-Biden Transition Project.^[29]

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations[link]

On December 1, 2008, Rice was nominated by President-elect Obama to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,^[30][31] a position which he also upgraded to cabinet level.^[32] Rice is the second youngest^[32] and first African American woman US Representative to the UN.^[33] Dr. Rice has announced she will have both a transition team in place in New York and in Washington, DC at the State Department to be headed by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The 2010 National Security Strategy was referred to by Rice as a "dramatic departure" from its predecessor.^[34]

In light of the 2011 Libyan civil war Ambassador Rice gave a statement following a White House meeting with President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as the United States increased pressure on the Libyan leader to give up power. Rice made clear that the United States and the international community saw only one choice for Gaddafi and his aides: step down from power or face significant consequences. Rice offered some of the toughest rhetoric toward Gaddafi, blasting his denials of atrocities against his own citizens as “frankly, delusional.” “It only underscores how unfit he is to lead, and how disconnected he is from reality,” Rice said. Rice praised the U.N. Security Council for the unanimous resolution it passed that called for the freezing of Libyan government assets and military aid to the country. It also referred all claims of abuse of the Libyan people directly to the International Criminal Court.^[35]

Together with National Security Council figure Samantha Power, who already supported military intervention, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who came to support it, the three overcame internal opposition from Defense Secretary Robert Gates, security advisor Thomas Donilon, and counterterrorism advisor John Brennan, and the administration backed U.N. action to impose the no-fly zone and authorize other military actions as necessary.^[20][36] On 17 March 2011 Rice voted for United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 which sanctioned a Libyan no-fly zone. The UK, France and Lebanon voted for the resolution while Brazil, Germany and India, and permanent members China and Russia both abstained. Rice and Clinton played major roles in getting the Security Council to approve this resolution,^[20][37] Clinton said that same day that establishing a no-fly zone over Libya would require the bombing of air defenses, as the U.S. seeks broad action to protect civilians fighting Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's regime. Rice said that "We are interested in a broad range of actions that will effectively protect civilians and increase the pressure on the Gaddafi regime to halt the killing and to allow the Libyan people to express themselves in their aspirations for the future freely and peacefully,"^[38]

On March 29, 2011, Rice said that the Obama administration had not ruled out arming the rebels fighting to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In an interview on ABC's Good Morning America program, Rice said there was no indication that Gaddafi was prepared to leave power without continued pressure from the International community. Referring to reports that members of Gaddafi's inner circle were reaching out to the West, she said: "We will be more persuaded by actions rather than prospects or feelers. ... The message for Gaddafi and those closest to him is that history is not on their side. Time is not on their side. The pressure is mounting.^[39] In January 2012 after the Russian and Chinese veto of a UNSC resolution, Rice strongly condemned both countries for vetoing a resolution calling on Bashar al-Assad to step down. "They put a stake in the heart of efforts to resolve this conflict peacefully," Rice said on CNN. "The tragedy is for the people of Syria. We the United States are standing with the people of Syria. Russia and China are obviously with Assad." She added that "Russia and China will, I think, come to regret this action". "They have ... by their veto dramatically increased the risk of greater violence, and you've seen manifestations of that."^[40] In her words, "the United States is disgusted that a couple of members of this Council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose."^[41]

Affiliations[link]

Susan Rice serves on the boards of several organizations, including the National Democratic Institute, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF,^[27] board of directors of the Atlantic Council,^[42] advisory board of Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University,^[43] the board of directors of Bureau of National Affairs,^[44] board of directors of Partnership for Public Service,^[14] the Beauvoir National Cathedral Elementary School, and past member of the Internews Network's board of directors.^[45][46]

She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group.^[16][47]

Awards and honors[link]

• Rice was inducted into Stanford's Black Alumni Hall of Fame in 2002.^[8]
• Served as Baccalaureate Speaker, at Spelman College (Atlanta, GA), in May 2010.
• Served as the Commencement Speaker, at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), in June 2010.
• Served as the Commencement Speaker, at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL), in May 2012.

Susan Rice delivered the commencement speech at Spelman College and received an honorary doctorate in

References[link]

External links[link]

• United States Mission to the United Nations
• Susan Rice on Facebook
• Susan Rice on Twitter
• Article archive at the Brookings Institution
• Susan Rice at WhoRunsGov at The Washington Post
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Susan Rice on Charlie Rose
• Susan Rice at the Internet Movie Database
• Susan Rice collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Works by or about Susan Rice in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Susan Rice at the Notable Names Database

Articles

• The Ethiopian-Eritrean War: U.S. Policy Options Before the House Committee on International Relations, Africa Subcommittee, May 25, 1999. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
• Martha Brant, Into Africa, Stanford Magazine, Jan-Feb 2000
• Fox News Interview with Laura Ingraham (video)
• Interview with Dave Ross on MyNorthwest.com (audio)

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Karen Kornbluh (born 1963) is an American government official, and expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. A senior adviser to Barack Obama from the beginning of his Senate tenure throughout his 2008 presidential campaign, she has been called "Obama's brain."^[1] She is now Obama's Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).^[2]

Education[link]

Kornbluh attended Hunter College High School, earned a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.^[3]

Career[link]

Early in her career, Kornbluh was a Telesis management consultant to Fortune 500 high-technology companies and an economist at Alan Greenspan's economic forecasting firm, Townsend-Greenspan & Co.^[4] She worked for Senator John Kerry (D-MA) on the staff of the Commerce Committee and its Telecommunications Subcommittee.

From 1994 to 1997, she filled several roles at the Federal Communications Commission, starting in November 1994 as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Plans and Policy, working on educational technology and children's television. She next served as Assistant Chief of the Commission's International Bureau, helping to negotiate the World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications and leading negotiations for the first satellite agreement between the United States and Mexico. She became Director of the FCC's Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs in February 1997, while the agency was implementing key provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. She completed her FCC service as Deputy Chief of the Mass Media Bureau. In that role, she handled digital television matters as well as a variety of other issues before the Bureau.^[5] She went from the FCC to the Department of the Treasury, where she was deputy chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, working on such issues as e-commerce and international trade.^[6]

Kornbluh founded the Work and Family Program at the New America Foundation, having joined the think tank as a Markle Fellow.^[7] She has argued for a modernized social insurance system that would better meet the needs of "juggler families," which are dependent on the incomes of both parents or that of a single parent.^[8][9] Prominent conservative commentator David Brooks cited Kornbluh's piece on juggler families as one of the notable magazine articles that characterized 2006 as a "year of losing ground," or a time of pronounced anxiety in the United States.^[10] Kornbluh has also published articles on economic policy in such periodicals as The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times and The Washington Post.^[11]

Obama hired her as policy director in 2004—a move that was seen as a sign of his determination to build an unusually strong staff for a freshman Senator.^[12] A 2007 New York Sun article mentions Kornbluh as one of several former Clinton Administration officials who joined "the Obama camp," rather than Hillary Rodham Clinton's team, for the 2008 presidential election.^[13] She was primary drafter of the 2008 Democratic platform.^[14]

Personal[link]

In 1993, Kornbluh married lawyer James J. Halpert,^[15] for whom the character Jim Halpert, on the television show The Office, is named.^[16] They have two children.[14]

External links[link]

• Recent articles by Kornbluh
• Karen Kornbluh interviewed by CNN, November 13, 2008

References[link]

Dr. Dipu Moni
Dipu Moni in 2010
Foreign Minister of Bangladesh
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 January 2009
President	Iajuddin Ahmed Zillur Rahman
Prime Minister	Sheikh Hasina
Preceded by	Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury
Personal details
Born	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political party	Bangladesh Awami League
Residence	Dhaka
Religion	Islam
Website	http://www.dipumoni.com

Dipu Moni is a Bangladeshi politician and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2009.

Early Political Career[link]

Until now the principal focus of her work has been women's rights and entitlements, health legislation, health policy and management, health financing, strategic planning, and health and human rights under the Constitution and law in Bangladesh's economic and social development programmes and foreign policy issues of the region and globally.^[1] Over the past ten years Dr. Dipu Moni has represented her leader and party's position to Cabinet Ministers and public representatives of Asia, Europe and the USA, Ambassadors and Senior Representatives of International Institutions. She writes, teaches, consults, researches, conducts advocacy programmes, organizes and leads free health service clinics with a pool of qualified physicians, and promotes legislation on key issues.^[2]

Moni is an avid protagonist of representative politics and women's participation in the political decision-making process. She is one of two Master Trainers for Women political Activists of the Party in which regard she has trained women political activists under a programme of her party that she helped design and implement in a close relationship with the National Democratic Institute (NDI) of the United States.^[3]

Education[link]

Educated at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Dhaka Medical College, the country's premier Medical School, and at the University of London, Dipu Moni has undertaken specialized courses at Johns Hopkins and a course at Harvard on Negotiations and Conflict Resolution.

Personal life[link]

Moni is the daughter of the late M.A. Wadud, a close associate of Bangabandhu and H.S. Suhrawardy in the struggle for democracy and the rights of Bangalees. Mr. Wadud was a founding member of the Awami League and is known especially for his role in the Language Movement and as the first Council-elected General Secretary of the East Pakistan Chhatra League. Mr. Wadud suffered imprisonment on several occasions during his political life. After the assassination of the Founder of the Nation, upon his refusal to accept a Cabinet position, he was imprisoned by the military government.^[4]

Moni is married to Tawfique Nawaz, one of two Oxbridge educated Senior Advocates of the Bangladesh Supreme Court, Head of an internationally reputed law firm and a parampara (generational) exponent of at least a 2000 year old Indian Classical Musical form, namely Alaap, on the Grande Flute. They have one son, Tawquir Rashaad, 20, a law student at the University of London, a winner of the UCL Global Excellence Scholarship from the region comprising the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle East, and a daughter, Tani Deepavali Nawaz.

See also[link]

• Sheikh Hasina
• Bangladesh Awami League

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dr. Dipu Moni's Official Website
• Awami League Official Website