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Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« on: March 22, 2017, 03:38:06 am »
Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'

 By Rebecca Savransky - 03/21/17 10:42 PM EDT 


Rex Tillerson said the job of secretary of State wasn't a role he sought out.

"I didn't want this job. I didn't seek this job," Tillerson told the Independent Journal Review in an interview during his recent Asia trip.

When asked why he agreed to take on the position of secretary of State, Tillerson said his wife "told me I'm supposed to do this."

During the interview, Tillerson said he had never met President Trump before the election. After his victory, the president wanted to talk with Tillerson "about the world."

“When he asked me at the end of that conversation to be secretary of State, I was stunned," Tillerson said.

Tillerson later told his wife about the offer.

 “I told you God’s not through with you," he said his wife told him.

The former ExxonMobil CEO added: “I was supposed to retire in March, this month. I was going to go to the ranch to be with my grandkids."

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/325123-tillerson-i-didnt-want-this-job
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2017, 03:42:07 am »
Nobody sane would want that job.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2017, 03:43:28 am »
Eh, and?

This reads way different that the Lefty Hill is spinning this. This sounds like a humble guy being modest. Not some guy upset that he is in this role now or hates Trump.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2017, 04:56:30 am »
A headline construed to convey something quite different that what the man wanted to communicate.

In public service it is often said the best people do not seek such jobs.

And the recent Chairman of Exxon is completely sane, and the Republican President is trying to do exactly the things real conservatives have asked for years.

Anybody not seeing it, has their head up their unspeakable.


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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2017, 05:22:01 am »
Sounds like a good endorsement to me.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2017, 05:50:24 am »
He wasn't forced to take it.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2017, 06:01:55 am »
Quote from: geronl on March 22, 2017, 05:50:24 am
He wasn't forced to take it.

It sound to me that he took it due to a sense of duty to country.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2017, 06:26:02 am »
Hey Rex.... did your wife tell you to buy XTO also?
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2017, 07:28:23 am »
Quote from: catfish1957 on March 22, 2017, 06:26:02 am
Hey Rex.... did your wife tell you to buy XTO also?
That was a good outfit to do work for.
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Re: Tillerson: 'I didn't want this job'
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2017, 03:05:23 pm »
Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 22, 2017, 07:28:23 am
That was a good outfit to do work for.

Hey Smokin....   I bet the key word there was "WAS"

Ole' Rex pulled the biggest blunder in XON/XOM history (Even surpasing the Valdez), by making an acquisition of this manner.  Bought high, and then sat on an industry whose product (NG) price  has been in the toilet since.

Sadly, XOM values people who operate like robots, so that they can follow systems.  They have basically shut the door to inovators.
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