Us a desk to the department of us a and Canada Ministry of Foreign Affairs in that position i was involved in the preparations both for ministerial meetings and the summits in that position i dast have maybe much influence but they could contribute but the most important moments are when the principals of the foreign minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and youre not just an interpreter you actually have to say what you think and to me with my very limited political Prior Experience that was not easy but that happened because i know that her intimate with gorbachev and she were nods and know about cherie nazi is my grandfather and i know about gorbachev because youre his advisor up to this day how did you earn their trust. How does that happen how does that happen the initial process is earning the trust as a professional as an interpreter but then inevitably i work with both of them for 6 years and inevitably you become closer and e
Cold war started so this is home for us as you are important where you allowed to have a political position where you are allowed to have a say in this things. In part that depends on the position that you have in the Foreign Ministry initially was a member of the department of translation and interpretation and it was only later in early 1987 that i was transferred to the usa desk to the department of usa and canada of the ministry of Foreign Affairs in that position i was involved in the preparations both for ministerial meetings and summits and in that position i dast have maybe much influence but they could contribute but the most important moments are when the principles of the foreign minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and youre not just in to you actually have to say what you think and to me with my very limited political Prior Experience that was not easy but that happened because i know that her intimate with gorbachev act
6 years and inevitably you become closer and either trust not only you as a professional translator interpreter but also they begin to trust your opinion because they know that you have been with them through a great deal i think it started in the reykjavik with gorbachev at about the same time. And they did ask for my opinion sometimes difficult moments. During the whole process of ending the cold war it was not actually a smooth and easy process as many people now think it was a process that had. Its halls obstacles difficult moments when miss misunderstandings occurred when understandings seemed to be breaking. I think at that time they asked my opinion just because i was closest to them physically. So youre obviously not only translating like were sad but also emotionally and intellectually involved in the process and it was a very difficult process like you pointed out it was no sleuth a lot of things were breaking in to put together it was like a work of a jeweler ritual rainmake
Iste house chief of staff first famously the gatekeeper, which means giving the president time and space to think. He is the broker of information, he made sure everything is teed up with information on every side. Takinghe heat shield, the incoming artillery for the president , getting all the blame and none of the credit. At the end of the day, the chief of staff is someone the president counts on to execute his agenda. Him importantly, to tell what he does not want to hear. Host you begin the book by writing about what appears to be an extraordinary answering of chiefs of staff from the past. They were meeting with rahm emanuel, who was working for barack obama. Tell us about that meeting. Extraordinary scene that took place in december 2008, when rahm emanuel was about to start is Barack Obamas chief of staff. We were on the verge of the great depression. Two wars, a bloody stalemate. It was a real crisis and former white house chiefs of staff on every side of the aisle from the ch
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