So for example, issues of foreign policy are discussed by the Foreign Affairs Council, whereas financial issues are likely to be discussed by the Economic and Financial Affairs Council.
Last week, Condoleezza Rice, Mr. Bush's chief foreign policy adviser, discussed the issue with House and Senate Republicans, but she said today that she did not meet specifically with undecided Republicans or argue Mr. Bush's position.
Kissinger even held a private meeting with Videla without the presence of the US ambassador to Buenos Aires, Raúl Castro, at which human rights and Carter's foreign policy were discussed.
In other foreign policy matters, Shultz discussed possible nuclear threats to the United States.
The last presidential election was the third in a row in which foreign policy was barely discussed.
Some of us would feel more comfortable today if American and allied foreign policy could be discussed solely in temporal terms, without bringing God into the deal at all.
Why is this story so important to be told at a time when Narendra Modi's rise in Indian politics, his cabinet and his foreign policy are being discussed in the country and observed by the world over?
He is said to have met John Kerry, US secretary of state, and Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, to discuss a possible job change.
But another transition official confirmed that Mr. Obama's foreign policy advisers were discussing the possibility of appointing a special envoy to India.
On the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend, White House officials hosted a group of Muslim and other foreign policy scholars to discuss what points Mr. Obama should touch on.
