State Department: ‘Even the white guys’ support diversity program

Published August 18, 2017 7:48pm ET



Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has decided to retain a pair of fellowship programs designed to promote diversity within the ranks of foreign service officers, and a department spokeswoman said Friday that everyone in the building supports the move.

“In talking with some of the foreign service officers in the building — even the white guys, they all said ‘we love this! We love this program, we’re so pleased that it’s staying,'” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told reporters Friday. “So I think, building-wide, I can speak for that, the importance of diversity — kidding aside — but the importance of diversity to the programs here.”

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