Condoleezza Rice: Tillerson has 'exceedingly difficult' job in 'unusual administration'
By BRENT D. GRIFFITHS 03/04/2018 02:34 PM EST
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that current top diplomat Rex Tillerson has a tough job — made more challenging by President Donald Trump's freewheeling communication style.
"I think what's hard is to get up every day and not know what the president said at 3 o'clock in the morning," Rice said on CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS. "That would be exceedingly difficult."
Rice was one of the key voices in the foreign policy arena championing Tillerson when he was first nominated. And she said Sunday the top diplomat, with whom Rice's consulting firm worked when he was chief executive of ExxonMobil, is doing his best in what Rice called a "unusual administration." The pair recently spoke together at Stanford University, where Rice is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.
"I think that Rex Tillerson, in a usual administration with an unusual president, who has never been in government before, is really doing a very good job on the diplomacy and is just putting his head down and going about that work," Rice said, crediting Tillerson for working to isolate North Korea and ensuring the U.S. maintains some diplomatic ties to Russia.
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