The Foreign Service has long sought to recruit our nation's best and brightest. But there was one thing it couldn't offer to many people who signed up -- the chance to be an ambassador. Now, President Obama says he'd like to open more of the top jobs to career State Department diplomats. Join Kojo as we explore whether that reform is likely to happen and what the change could mean for the U.S. foreign policy establishment.
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Climbing the Ladder at the State Department
Listen Monday, Jan. 26, 2009 at 1:06 p.m. in PoliticsGuests
Teddy Taylor
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Human Resources, U.S. Department of State
Steve Kashkett
Vice President, American Foreign Service Association
Edward Peck
Former Chief of Mission in Baghdad and Former Ambassador to Mauritania; President of Foreign Services International
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