DEPARTMENT OF STATE

The State Department is the oldest and the most senior of the Cabinet Departments.  It performs the same functions as the "Foreign Ministries" of many other countries. The Secretary of State heads this department and sits on the Cabinet of the President of the United States, advising him about the relationships between the United States and the other countries of the world.  This department operates all of the Embassies and Consulates of the United States throughout the world.

The Secretary of State is a Presidential Appointment, as are a number of other Under Secretaries, Assistant Secretaries and their Assistants.  The are assigned to other tasks and sub-departments.  These are all important appointments of the President.

The Secretary of State also recommends nominees to the President to be Ambassadors to other countries and to various important international organizations such as the United Nations.  These are also subject to confirmation by the United States Senate.

The organization of the Department of State is available at this address on the internet:  Organization Chart

Sites within the State Department pages are outlined at:  Bureaus and Departments

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The nominees by the President for positions within the State Department are considered for confirmation by the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate.  The hearings schedules and results are found at the Foreign Relations Committee website at:  Confirmation hearings.

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     John Isaacson, page owner, graduated from Washington University Law School - He was involved in Missouri state politics as campaign manager for Governor and as state Republican Campaign Chairman in 1963-1964. Isaacson was an Air Force Intelligence Officer in Europe during the Berlin Crisis under John Kennedy - President Nixon appointed him to serve on the President's Commission for the Observance of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations, serving on the Executive Committee and the China Subcommittee which recommended the admission of China to the United Nations. His political experience includes meetings with Presidents Harry Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and Ford. He enjoyed a long personal friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and Edna Gellhorn, the founder of The League of Women Voters. Isaacson has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Near and Far East.  He now lives in western Montana near the Rocky Mountain Continental Divide in Butte Montana, the "Richest Hill on Earth."