{"id":133745,"date":"2017-06-28T22:49:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/will-rex-tillerson-be-the-first-trump-secretary-to-bail.html"},"modified":"2017-06-28T22:49:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:49:11","slug":"will-rex-tillerson-be-the-first-trump-secretary-to-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/will-rex-tillerson-be-the-first-trump-secretary-to-bail.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Rex Tillerson be the first Trump secretary to bail?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We often read about how frustrating DC has been for Donald Trump, a free-wheeling CEO who is used to giving orders and having them executed, to suddenly find himself mired in politics and institutional restraints and checks and balances and all that folderol.<\/p>\n

But consider poor Rex Tillerson, a CEO of much greater magnitude than the Donald, facing all of that and<\/i> having to answer to a higher executive and<\/i> that higher executive's junior flunkies. Especially working under a higher executive who (a) wants highly political appointees over competent individuals, (b) doesn't seem to pay much attention to previous promises of autonomy, and (c) really seems determined to marginalize Rex's department.<\/p>\n

Someone like Tillerson is not going to give up easily. But he's also a proud man whose self-worth is not entwined with a career in government. He can leave it much more easily than a lot of other Secretaries. And it wouldn't surprise me if he did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We often read about how frustrating DC has been for Donald Trump, a free-wheeling CEO who is used to giving orders and having them executed, to suddenly find himself mired in politics and institutional restraints and checks and balances and all that folderol. But consider poor Rex Tillerson, a CEO of much greater magnitude than … Continue reading “Will Rex Tillerson be the first Trump secretary to bail?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132288,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/13\/trump-picks-tillerson-for-secretary-of-state.html","url_meta":{"origin":133745,"position":0},"title":"Trump picks Tillerson for Secretary of State","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Dec-16 4:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Rex Tillerson sounds like a CEO name, and he is in fact the Chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. 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