President-elect Donald Trump’s short list for secretary of state has grown, with former Ford CEO and Curret Alphabet Director (Google’s Parent company) Alan Mulally now under consideration for the job as the nation’s top diplomat, a top adviser said today.
Mulally, 71, met with Trump Thursday in New York to discuss the position, campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News. Mulally, 71, helped engineer a turnaround at the automaker while avoiding the bankruptcies that befell its crosstown rivals, General Motors and Chrysler, now part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV. He previously served as head of Boeing Co.’s commercial airline business division.
“This is an important process,” Conway said. Trump “is welcoming in a number of men and women who have very diverse backgrounds.”
Conway said Exxon Mobil Corp. CEO Rex Tillerson, former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former CIA Director David Petraeus, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, and Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, were also among the names under consideration.
