After all, we had Presidents who were lawyers, senators, governors, army generals, secretaries of commerce, even a secretary of war, among other occupations.

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Last week, he gathered together virtually everyone who was anyone in the conduct of foreign policy for the past quarter-century: former presidents, former secretaries of state, former secretaries of commerce, even a long serving former Senate leader, Mike Mansfield, still sprightly at 97.

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That order has created an Export Promotion Cabinet, made up of the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor, along with our USTR, our Small Business Administrator, the Export-Import Bank President, and other senior U.S. officials whose work impacts exports.

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