{"id":15711,"date":"2017-01-16T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:52:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:52:53","slug":"stephen-azzi-talks-ottawa-citizen-soon-vacant-us-ambassador-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2017\/stephen-azzi-talks-ottawa-citizen-soon-vacant-us-ambassador-position\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Azzi talks to the Ottawa Citizen about the soon to be vacant US Ambassador position"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Stephen Azzi talks to the Ottawa Citizen about the soon to be vacant US Ambassador position\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Prof. Stephen Azzi was quoted in two Ottawa Citizen articles on January 13, 2017, both with regards to the US Ambassador position. In his first article entitled “American ambassadors to Canada: The good, the bad and the downright ‘obnoxious’<\/a>” Prof. Azzi shares with us some history on the position while the second article, detailed below, gives us some insight on potential replacements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following excerpt is from the article entitled “Who would want to be America’s ambassador to Canada? We asked one to find out<\/a>“:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United States Ambassador Bruce Heyman confirmed last week that he will resign \u201cas requested,\u201d effective Jan. 20, the day of president-elect Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former Chicago investment banker and his wife, Vicki, who\u2019ve become popular on both social media and the Ottawa social scene, say they\u2019ll decamp on or around that date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They \u201clove Canada\u201d \u2014 the feeling is apparently mutual given the outpouring of good will on Twitter and Facebook \u2014 and promise to be back \u201cfrequently\u201d for visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the meantime, the battleship-like American embassy on Sussex Drive could be without a captain for months into the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, the Citizen<\/em> talked to two experts about the ambassador\u2019s job, the perks of the post and who might be coming to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Teeley<\/strong> was appointed United States Ambassador to Canada in 1992 by president George H.W. Bush after serving the then-vice president as press secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Azzi<\/strong><\/a> is an associate professor of political management with a cross-appointment in history at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University with ties to the Liberal party and the historian behind Reconcilable Differences: A History of Canada-US Relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prof. Stephen Azzi was quoted in two Ottawa Citizen articles on January 13, 2017, both with regards to the US Ambassador position. In his first article entitled “American ambassadors to Canada: The good, the bad and the downright ‘obnoxious’” Prof. Azzi shares with us some history on the position while the second article, detailed below, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15714,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/15714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}