"When I started out, it was rare to see elected representatives with foreign roots.
A ferocious critic of Sarkozy, she concedes that his appointment of three women of foreign origin was important, "but at the same time it was hugely lacking, because he didn't go out and find elected representatives with foreign roots who had earned their legitimacy on the ground, in grassroots politics: he found those close to him, or people who he made and later undid.
Also for these reasons, John Marshall explained that "[t]he president is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations".
Keen to have representatives to deal with foreign governments, some Syrians left the country and teamed up with exiles to create political groupings.
During that time, the panel said, Mr. Torricelli and members of his Senate staff took a series of actions to help Mr. Chang, contacting American government officials, writing letters to foreign governments and bringing Mr. Chang or his business representatives into meetings with foreign officials.
But he said there's only one president, and he's pretty glad it ain't him right now". Still, Obama has named two representatives to meet with foreign officials on the sidelines of the summit, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Republican Rep. Jim Leach of Iowa, a former House banking committee chairman.
Yemen's vice president, Abed Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi, has been meeting over the past few months with the opposition and with representatives from foreign governments involved with the proposal.
But the idea was quickly and vigorously attacked by lawmakers and business lobbyists who said that a demotion would undercut the trade representative in negotiations with foreign partners and might cause other nations to think that the new administration considered trade a relatively low priority.
So the Israeli military flew a C-17 troop transport jammed with foreign representatives and reporters to this resort city at the northeastern tip of the Red Sea.
The rebel leadership in the eastern city of Benghazi said their representatives were in touch with foreign capitals about the imposition of a no-fly zone.
The questioning may begin in earnest Tuesday, when Mr. Bush, again interrupting his vacation in Kennebunkport, Me., returns to Washington to meet at the White House with the Congressional leadership and then at the Old Executive Office Building with senators and representatives from committees concerned with foreign and military policy.
