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intentions, no other nation joint is an imposing the sanctions. and they have had little effect, beyond providing the cuban government for rationale for restrictions on their own people. today, cuba is still governed by the castros and the communist party that came to power half a century ago. neither the american north cuban people are well served by a rigid policy that is rooted in event that took place before most of us were born. consider that for more than thirty-five years, we have had relations wwith china a far larger country also governed by a communist party. nearly 2 decades ago, we reestablished relations with vietnam, where we fought a war that claimed more americans than any cold war country. that is why, when i came into office, i promise to re-examine our cuban policy. as a start, we lifted restrictions for cuban-americans to travel, and sent remittances to their families and cuba. cubans have been reunited with their families. one of the best ambassad ....
comes to you then goes to the president. the important point of your job is to filter, and not in a good way, because he only has so many hours in the day, and you have to make judgments about what he has to know so that he is prepared, so for me, the day started at 3:30 in the morning, and i can t speak for you, but i was up at that time to shower and go to the gym and address, and i was in the car by fire lot. longer for the president would get information, there was interaction within the intelligence community. there were questions that i thought should be added to things, so it was the process to get the right information to him in a timely way that is holy integrated and comprehensive. so he is not getting a single review, but the lease and integrated one. it would not be inaccurate to describe this time as a time after 9/11. there was a way that we changed how we did security quite a bit. we change the way we think about intelligence and in my particular view, ....
the saudis have been very aligned after 9/11. this is a turn. i decided i m going to go and represent the president in saudi arabia. so i have never been. i called everybody. the state department. the cia. everyone would get me ready. they are consistent in one thing. absolutely, you can go. the saudis will view it as insulting because you are a woman. i don t know, how would i know? so i wait for my right moment to approach president bush and say to him, looked this is what i have been told. and you are not into her my feelings. maybe this is really important. maybe it is better if you send somebody else. and you know, i am happy to bow out. the president is quite irritated and says to me, it is not your choice. it is mine. what you don t understand about the saudis is that they won t care if you kind of were a big purple dinosaur. the fact of the matter is, you did he just say big purple dinosaur really? no, he didn t very he didn t. [laughter] we almost mad ....
hijackers. the government to government relationship have been ok, but this is a decided for turn. i am told i m going to go to represent the president in saudi arabia. i have never been. i called everybody. the state department, cia, everybody to get me ready. their consistent and one thing, absolutely you can t go. the saudis will view it as an insult because you are a woman. how would i know? i dutifully screw up my courage and wait for the right moment to praise president bush privately and basically say to him, look, this is what i have been told. my re not going to hurt feelings. maybe this is really important. maybe it is better if you send someone else. i m happy to bow out. the president, quite irritated, says to me, it s not your choice, it s mine. and two, what you don t understand about the saudis, they won t care if you kind of four a big purple dinosaur. the fact is, if you come because did he say big purple dinosaur? he did not care what you were. m ....
the first time i went to the kingdom, it was in a prior job. the first call i made was to fran to say, what can you give me for advice? i would echo what fran says. the key factor is, you re going to represent the president. whether it is saudi arabia, which we ve had a close, terrorism partnership, or, frankly, yemen, which i ve been to more than anybody in the administration in the last year for sure. very different environments, but the key point is, i have been sent as the president s emissary, and that is important to the president with whom i m meeting in yemen are going to turkey are going and seeing the king of jordan. the same doors are open because i am going at the request of the president with a message from the president, with specific things to discuss on the president. and that is the key. anne-marie slaughter wrote one of the best covers. to be fair, i don t think she was thrilled with the title. nonetheless, it sold a lot. she is a book deal and it ....