Press Conferences and Events

Scenes from formal press events featuring podiums, flags, and officials speaking to an audience, set in a governmental atmosphere.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a joint press availability with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a joint press availability with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 7, 2019.

Announcement, at the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill, of the introduction of bipartisan Congressional legislation for permanent authorization of the Preserve America and Save America's Treasures programs, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining First Lady Laura Bush, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller, Ohio Congressman Miichael Turner, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and National Trust for Historic Preservation President Richard Moe among the featured speakers

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson delivers remarks to the current cohorts of the Unpaid Student Internship Program, the Unpaid Legal Intern program, The Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Program and Summer Enrichment Scholars, the Thomas R. Pickering Fellows, and the Franklin Fellows, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on August 18, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry walks to the podium with Vice President Joe Biden to introduce him at the 2016 Chief of Missions Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo attends the annual Department of State Retirement Ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry approaches the podium before delivering a speech focused on Obama administration climate change policy on January 9, 2016, during an appearance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked by former Secretaries of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Colin L. Powell and Madeleine Albright, attends a reception celebrating the completion of the U.S. Diplomacy Center at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on January 10, 2017.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks on "Supporting Iranian Voices� at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs in Simi Valley, California on July 22, 2018.

President Barack Obama delivers remarks to the audience, seen reflected in a mirror, at the Global Health Security Agenda Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building South Court Auditorium, Sept. 26, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks on Middle East peace, at the Department of State in Washington, DC on December 28, 2016.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo holds a press conference in Doha, Qatar, on February 29, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly, addresses staff and family members from the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, during a meet-and-greet at the Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel in Tbilisi on July 7, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton participates in a conversation with the World Food Programs 2011 George McGovern Leadership Awardees Howard Buffett, center left; and Bill Gates, center right; and World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran, right; at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2011.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the Department Awards Ceremony, at the Department of State, November 27, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in an interview with ABC News in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 31, 2020.

President Bush comments on the Iraq War supplemental in the East Room of the White House

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers remarks before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry receives the Order of Merit - the higher civilian award in Germany - from government officials during a ceremony at the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany, on December 5, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks for the Inaugural Richard C. Holbrooke Lecture: Broad Vision of U.S.- China Relations in the 21st Century, in the Benjamin Franklin Room in the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 14, 2011.

Kenyan Foreign Secretary Amina Mohamed applauds as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry salutes the Kenyan Olympic Marathon winners during a joint news conference following a series of meetings on August 22, 2016, at the Villa Rosa Kempinski Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stands with New Zealand Prime Minister John Key on November 13, 2016, at Premier House in Wellington, New Zealand, as he addresses reporters during a joint news conference following a bilateral meeting.

President Barack Obama hosts a Town Hall with young African leaders in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on August 3, 2010.

President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris, talks to members of the press during a meeting with bipartisan members of Congress to discuss cancer research Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger film, "Conversations on Diplomacy, Moderated by Charlie Rose," at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2011.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets CTV host Rosemary Barton on March 9, 2016, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., before an interview in advance of the State Visit of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers joint statements with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, Israel on November 19, 2020.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks on the G-7 foreign ministers� meeting to the media, in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State on March 25, 2020.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the PD Next: 2019 Global Public Diplomacy Workshop, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 2019.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media in the Press Briefing Room, at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2020.

President Nixon at a press conference in the East Room of the White House in July 1972.

Vice President Joe Biden delivers remarks after swearing in Roberta Jacobson as the new U.S. Ambassador to Mexico at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 17, 2016.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on the margins of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 76) in New York, New York, on September 23, 2021.

Nancy Pelosi speaks to the media following the democratic take-over of the House

Announcement, at the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill, of the introduction of bipartisan Congressional legislation for permanent authorization of the Preserve America and Save America's Treasures programs, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining First Lady Laura Bush, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller, Ohio Congressman Miichael Turner, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and National Trust for Historic Preservation President Richard Moe among the featured speakers

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a television interview with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in Copenhagen, Denmark, on July 22, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson addresses U.S. Embassy Cairo staff in Cairo, Egypt on February 12, 2018.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the Hoover Institution in Washington D.C., on February 23, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses young Russian professionals at the American Center in Moscow, Russia, on March 23, 2016.

President Barack Obama meets backstage with from left: Political Director Patrick Gaspard, Gov. Jim Doyle and Sen. Herb Kohl before a luncheon for Mayor Tom Barrett at U.S.Cellular Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Aug. 16, 2010.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in a press interview with Bill Gertz of The Washington Times in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 29, 2020.

Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, is interviewed by Vaidotas Benusius, senior reporter and foreign news editor at Baltic News Service, in Vilnius, Lithuania, on March 1, 2012.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers a speech on Latin American Policy in Chile on April 12, 2019.

President Bush comments on the Iraq War supplemental in the East Room of the White House

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo conducts media interviews with �The National� and Sky News Arabia in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. on July 10, 2018.

Announcement, at the Sewall-Belmont House on Capitol Hill, of the introduction of bipartisan Congressional legislation for permanent authorization of the Preserve America and Save America's Treasures programs, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joining First Lady Laura Bush, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici, North Carolina Congressman Brad Miller, Ohio Congressman Miichael Turner, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III, and National Trust for Historic Preservation President Richard Moe among the featured speakers

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

President Joe Biden, joined by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, delivers remarks Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C.

President Barack Obama delivers a statement to the press on the MEF discussion at the G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, July 9, 2009.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger film, "Conversations on Diplomacy, Moderated by Charlie Rose," at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 20, 2011.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Euronews from Brussels, Belgium, on March 25, 2021.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the media at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on October 21, 2020.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Danielle Dithurbide from Televisa conduct an interview in Mexico City on July 13, 2018.

President Barack Obama shakes hands as he takes the stage after being introduced by Vice President Joe Biden, with Dr. Jill Biden, for remarks on college affordability at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 9, 2015.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in The Hill�s Newsmaker Series, at the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2019.

New Mexico Congressman Tom Udall at events at Department of Interior headquarters honoring former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall and the late Congressman Morris Udall

Sen. John Glenn gives remarks at an event celebrating his legacy and 50 years of americans in orbit held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center on Friday, March 3, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken participates in an interview with Norah O'Donnell on CBS News's 60 Minutes from the U.S. Department of State on April 10, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech about U.S.-Pacific relations at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, on April 15, 2013.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks at the United Against Nuclear Iran Summit in New York City on September 25, 2018.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with Sky News Correspondent Adam Boulton on September 15, 2016, before they recorded an interview amid the third Our Ocean Conference at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo delivers remarks to the press, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on November 10, 2020.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Barcelona, 02/27/2022. King Felipe VI presides over the official opening dinner of the Mobile World Congress. Photo: Inés Baucells. ARCHDC.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the upcoming opening of the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, and broader Cuban and Latin American policy, during an interview with Univision's Maria Elena Salinas on August 12, 2015, in the Treaty Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers a speech about U.S.-Sri Lankan relations in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 2, 2015, after a series of meetings with President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera.

Everett Koop at White House meeting with Vice-President Al Gore to discuss a settlement with the tobacco industry 1997. C. Everett Koop (1916-2013) American paediatric surgeon and U.S. Surgeon General from 1981 to 1991

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Apollo astronauts, from the left, David Scott, James McDivitt, Thomas Stafford, Buzz Aldrin, Eugene Cernan, Charles Duke, Richard Gordon, Fred Haise, Alan Bean and Edgar Mitchell speak to guests gathered for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation's dinner at the Radisson Resort at the Port in Cape Canaveral celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 17.The gala commemorating the anniversary of Apollo 17 included mission commander Eugene Cernan and other astronauts who flew Apollo missions. Launched Dec. 7, 1972, Cernan and lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt landed in the moon's Taurus-Littrow highlands while command module pilot Ronald Evans remained in lunar orbit operating a scientific instrument module.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in the Warsaw Summit in Warsaw, Poland on February 14, 2019

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry prepares for his Google+ Hangout with NBC's Andrea Mitchell at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 10, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with WPLG-TV Senior Politics and Government Reporter Michael Putney at the Omni Tower in Miami, Florida, on April 14, 2016, before an interview during a day trip to the city in which he was also to meet with Cuban-American leaders, and address Honors graduates and recruit potential State Department employees at Miami Dade College.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivers remarks at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, February 20, 2013.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (left) listens to Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen (right) at a women's empowerment event co-hosted by Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen and in Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 20, 2010.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Oct. 2, 2012 The President talks with Ron Klain during debate preparations in Henderson, Nev. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., background, played the role of Gov. Mitt Romney during the prep sessions.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo participates in an interview with LBC Radio in London, United Kingdom, on January 30, 2020.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- KSC management and other employees gather in the Centers television studio to watch the address by President George W. Bush at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., stating his goals for NASAs new mission: Completing the International Space Station, retiring the Space Shuttle orbiters, developing a new crew exploration vehicle, and returning to the moon and beyond within the next two decades. Pres. Bush was welcomed by NASA Administrator Sean OKeefe and Expedition 8 Commander Michael Foale, who greeted him from the International Space Station. Members of the Washington, D.C., audience included astronauts Eileen Collins, Ed Lu and Michael Lopez-Alegria, and former astronaut Gene Cernan.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the UN Foundation Social Good Summit in New York City, New York on September 18, 2016.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, joined by U.S. Senator for Alaska Lisa Murkowski, discusses the effects of Arctic climate change at the welcome reception for the Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience (GLACIER) Conference, at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 30, 2015.

Caroline Kennedy speaks at an event recognizing the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 in the rotunda at the U.S. Capitol. Also participating in the event, seated from left, Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin, Dr. Barry Black, U.S. Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, and U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA).

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo sits prior to an interview with Channel News Asia, Singapore, Singapore, August 3, 2018.

Vice President Kamala Harris applauds during the virtual swearing-in ceremony of Marcia Fudge as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sits with United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on October 30, 2015, in the Grand Hotel in Vienna, Austria, during a news conference to announce widespread international cooperation on reaching a political solution to the fighting in Syria.

Office of the Secretary (Carlos Gutierrez) - Secretary Gutierrez with Afghan President Hamid Karzai

President Joe Biden, joined onstage by NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins and Chief Medical Adviser to the President and Director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci, delivers remarks Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry participates in a Groundbreaking Ceremony for the U.S. Diplomacy Center with former Secretaries of State Henry A. Kissinger, James A. Baker, III, Madeleine K. Albright, Colin L. Powell, and Hillary Rodham Clinton at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on September 3, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Aspen Institute President Walter Isaacson discuss global affairs and answer students' questions at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics in Chicago, Illinois, during a visit to the city on October 26, 2016, which was also to include a speech before the Council on Global Affairs.

With Vice President Joe Biden and his family looking on, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman delivers remarks at his swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2014.

U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Danielle Dithurbide from Televisa conduct an interview in Mexico City on July 13, 2018.

Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland, delivers remarks during an annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California, Feb. 6, 2024. This ceremony is an annual event to commemorate the life and legacy of the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and is held every year on his birthday by presidential declaration. Marine Corps

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry passes a series of busts as he walks with Brazil Foreign Minister Jose Serra on August 5, 2016, at the Palacio Itamaraty in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, before a bilateral meeting amid his duties leading the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss in New York City, New York, on September 20, 2021.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton responds to a question at a town hall on �Empowering Civil Society for Central Asia�s Future� in Astana, Kazakhstan, on November 30, 2010.

President Joe Biden listens as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivers opening remarks during the virtual House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House.

Munich, Germany October 23, 2024 The former NATO general secretary Jens Stoltenberg and future head of the Munich security conference in an interview in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof The former NATO general secretary Jens Stoltenberg and future head of the Munich security conference in an interview in the Hotel Bayerischer Hof

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton introduces U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden to speak at the 2011 Global Chiefs of Mission Conference at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 3, 2011.

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