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3 FAM 1412 RESPONSIBILITY 3 FAM 1412.1 Secretary of State (CT:PER-674; 04-27-2012) Recommendations for Presidential nominations and appointments under the jurisdiction of the Department of State are made by memorandum from the Secretary of State to the President. These recommendations for nominations and appointments include not only ambassadors and principal officers of the Department, but also top-level positions in the United Nations, the international American system, and other international commissions, organizations, and conferences where a request for a U.S. Presidential appointment is required.

MS. MORALES: How would you, Secretary – I’m sorry. Go ahead. What do you use? Are you a Blackberry -- SECRETARY CLINTON: I’m a Blackberry. Yes. I’m a Blackberry person. And also, because of the constant need to get information out of something as large as the State Department, we do Twitter in many different languages; we have sites and are on Facebook for many of our different projects. So one of my goals when I became Secretary was to expand the definition of diplomacy, so it’s not just what I did today meeting with the foreign secretary and defense secretary and the President and members of his cabinet. It’s a much broader outreach, like what we’re doing here today.