UN Ambassador Rice: Nations Want to 'Work with America Again'

by Walter Shapiro
Politics Daily
May 8, 2009

http://www.waltershapiro.com/5561/un-ambassador-rice-nations-want-to-work-with-america

Excerpt:

My question – lifted from Barack Obama's last prime time press conference – was a reporter's ploy to extend a Wednesday afternoon interview that had already run past its scheduled half hour. But United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, the Obama campaign veteran with the most high-profile foreign policy post in the new administration, mulled it carefully, reluctant to offer a flip answer.

"What's humbled me the most (in this job) are the outsized expectations that the rest of the world has of the Obama administration, which I think only God and the three trinities would be able to meet," she said in a soft voice. "What has surprised me – although it is not entirely a surprise – has been the degree to which there has been this opening and welcoming hand, and the desire to renew relations and cooperation with the United States."

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