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• United States cabinet [r]: The most senior committee of the executive branch of the United States government. [e]
• U.S. Department of State [r]: Agency of the executive branch of the U.S. government responsible for foreign policy and the conduct of American diplomacy. [e]

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• Deputy Secretary of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs [r]: Third-ranking official of the U.S. Department of State, reserved for a career Foreign Service Officer; incumbent is William Burns [e]
• Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security [r]: Head of the U.S. government interagency policy processes on nonproliferation, arms control, regional security and defense relations, and arms transfers and security assistance; provides Policy direction for, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons proliferation, peace operations and security alliances. [e]
• Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counselor of the U.S. Department of State [r]: A special advisor and consultant on major problems of foreign policy to the U.S. Secretary of State, who provides guidance to the appropriate bureaus with respect to such matters. [e]
• Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bureau of Intelligence and Research [r]: A purely analytical part of the United States intelligence community that specializes in studies that directly assist diplomacy, and also address issues of political geography [e]
• International Energy Affairs Coordinator, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Bureau of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Policy Planning Staff [r]: An organization in the U.S. Department of State, principally assisting the Secretary with long-term planning, liaison with outside experts, and bringing dissenting views to high-level officials [e]
• Office of the Chief of Protocol, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Office of Global Women's Issues, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Global Partnership Initiative, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Global Food Security, U.S. Department of State [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Special Envoy for Sudan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Secretaries of State

• Madeleine Albright [r]: Former U.S. Secretary of State; Director, Council on Foreign Relations; Principal, The Albright Group LLC [e]
• Warren Christopher [r]: Senior Partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers; adviser, Partnership for a Secure America, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; U.S. Secretary of State in the Carter Administration [e]
• Hillary Clinton [r]: U.S. Secretary of State since January 2009; Democratic Party contender for the presidential nomination, 2008; former First Lady (born 1947). [e]
• John Foster Dulles [r]: U.S. Secretary of State during most of the Eisenhower administration; adamant about containment of, rather than compromise with, Communists. Allen Dulles was his brother and Director of Central Intelligence [e]
• Colin Powell [r]: A retired general in the United States Army who served in high political office, first African-American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State; minimally partisan although he considered himself a moderate Republican, not a neoconservative [e]
• Henry Kissinger [r]: (1923—) American academic, diplomat, and simultaneously Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration; promoted realism (foreign policy) and détente with China and the Soviet Union; shared 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam War; Director, Atlantic Council [e]
• Condoleeza Rice [r]: Academic political scientist, then Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and U.S. Secretary of State in the George W. Bush Administration [e]
• William Rogers [r]: Chairman, Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident ("Rogers Commission)", then in law practice. Former Secretary of State under Richard Nixon (1969-1973), and Attorney General under President Eisenhower (1957-1961) [e]
• Dean Rusk [r]: United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1968 in the Administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, with extensive Asian experience and a strong advocate of U.S. resistance to Communism in Southeast Asia [e]
• Henry Stimson [r]: Add brief definition or description

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• Viet Minh [r]: A short name for the Communist-dominated national revolutionary movement that overthrew the colonial government of French Indochina [e]
• Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
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