For Nikki Haley, an Establishment Tutorial in Statecraft
'At various points, in different eras, they sat across from dictators and kings and ministers, negotiating on behalf of their country. But when former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and Madeleine K. Albright took the stage together this week, they focused their diplomacy on a target closer to home — the Trump administration.
During a panel discussion in New York, the cabinet veterans, one Republican and one Democrat, sought to school Nikki R. Haley, the rising star ambassador to the United Nations, on the importance of the State Department budget, the threat posed by Russia, the best way to reform the United Nations and the virtues of nation building, international trade and a free press.
Gently, politely but insistently, they offered an establishment tutorial on statecraft for an administration that has disdained the very notion. The discussion was friendly and hardly confrontational, yet it felt like a deposed order seeking to influence the revolutionaries who toppled it. In Ms. Haley, they coached the figure seemingly most sympathetic to the traditional ways of doing business — not to mention the one who may assume their old job soon enough.
As a Democrat who served under President Bill Clinton, Ms. Albright felt freer to be direct. “Nation building is not a four-letter word,” she told Ms. Haley at one point.
“I think also that we have to be very protective of our press,” she said at another. “Our democracy depends on having a free press.”'>>>
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