To lead the state Department’s Rex Tillerson talked the wife
U.S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson said that he had held this post thanks to my wife who convinced him to accept the offer made by President Donald trump.
“I didn’t want the job. I did not seek this job. But my wife said I should,” said Tillerson, in an interview with the Independent Journal Review.
Before appointment to the post of Secretary of state Tillerson led the company Exxon Mobil.
According to him, he was going to retire in March 2017, to leave the ranch and be with his grandchildren.
That Donald trump was going to ask Rex Tillerson to the post of U.S. Secretary of state, became known in December 2016. Tillerson candidacy was officially submitted to the Senate January 20, immediately after the inauguration of the trump. At the head of Exxon Mobil Tillerson, in particular, was engaged in business with “Rosneft” and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tillerson was awarded the Russian order of Friendship.