In February 2009, the US State Department issued a travel alert directed at college students planning spring break trips to Acapulco.

Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud as US president Clinton waves during the State of the Union address in 1997.

* Benjamin Franklin: First American Diplomat, 1776 – 1785 US State Department

In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Abroad, a new trend of aggressive American influence emerged, evident in Secretary of State James G. Blaine's expressed belief that all of Central and South America would some day fall to the US.

Midway through his college studies at Oregon State University ( then called Oregon State College ), near the end of World War II, he was drafted into the US Navy, serving two years as a radar technician in the Philippines.

In 1958 African-American Eugene Wright joined for the group's US State Department tour of Europe and Asia.

Featuring the album art of S. Neil Fujita, the album contained all original compositions, almost none of which were in common time: 9 / 8, 5 / 4, 3 / 4, and 6 / 4 were used inspired by Eurasian folk music they experienced during that US State Department sponsored tour.

In the early 1960s, Brubeck and his wife Iola developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the US State Department.

Micro was used to manage very large data sets by the US Department of Labor, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and researchers from the University of Alberta, the University of Michigan, and Wayne State University.

* Department of State, Academics see the military in decline, but retaining strong influence, 23 September 2009 ( US Embassy Cables, The Guardian, 2011 )

According to the US Department of State 2009 human rights report there are hundreds of political prisoners in Ethiopia.

The US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Still, the US Department of State said on September 16, " these elections stand out as a milestone in creating a new, more competitive multi-party political system in one of Africa's largest and most important countries.

Physician-assisted suicide is thus not classified as euthanasia by the US State of Oregon, where it is legal under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, and despite its name, it is not legally classified as suicide either.

In 2012 it was announced that the US State Department would start flame trolling Jihads as part of Operation Viral Peace

* Background Note: Guatemala-Information from the US State Department

After a visit to England, the couple returned to the US, where they settled in Mott Haven, Morrisania in New York State.

He was Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between 1834 and 1835 and again Foreign Secretary between 1841 and 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. It was during his second stint as Foreign Secretary that he settled two disagreements with the US – the Northeast Boundary dispute by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty ( 1842 ), and the Oregon dispute by the Oregon Treaty of 1846.

In an effort to limit German influence, in 1910-11, the US State Department backed a consortium of American investors, assembled by the National City Bank of New York, in acquiring control of the Banque Nationale d ' Haïti, the nation's only commercial bank and the government treasury.

In 1917, at the demand of US officials, the National Assembly was dissolved, and officials were designated to write a new constitution, which was largely dictated by officials in the US State Department and US Navy Department.

The US State Department authorized this plebiscite presuming that " The people casting ballots would be 97 % illiterate, ignorant in most cases of what they were voting for.

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

The newest upgrade is a joint venture by the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense: the AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile ( AARGM ), produced by Alliant Techsystems.

In November 2005, the Italian Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense signed a Memorandum of Agreement on the joint development of the AGM-88E AARGM missile.

Nowadays, the agencies that are responsible for the biotechnology regulation are: US Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) that regulates plant pests and medical preparation from living organisms, Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) that regulates pesticides and herbicides, and the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) which ensures that the food and drug products are safe and effective

* US Board on Geographic Names ( Department of the Interior )

* US Transportation Command ( Department of Defense )

David Rothkopf, managing director of Kissinger Associates and an adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University ( who also served as a senior US Commerce Department official in the Clinton Administration ), wrote about cultural imperialism in his provocatively titled In Praise of Cultural Imperialism?

* California Department of Corrections, the US state of California's prison system

The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).

Active development of the model by the US Department of Defense Software Engineering Institute ( SEI ) began in 1986 when Humphrey joined the Software Engineering Institute located at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania after retiring from IBM.

In 2000 they were the defendants in a US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit.

Following World War II, the US Navy Department adopted the dog tags used by the US Army and Air Force, so a single shape and size became the American standard.

* Defense Mapping Agency, a former ( 1972 – 1996 ) agency of the US Department of Defense.

* Defense Media Activity, an organization of the US Department of Defense

US state department spokesman, Sean McCormack called the move a " laudable milestone ... clearing the way for continued and expanding US-Libyan partnership.

French foreign minister and former UN Kosovo chief, Bernard Kouchner, warned that a unilateral declaration would split the European Union over recognition of the independence, whilst US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack commented that, ' There is nothing to be gained by short-circuiting the diplomatic process that is under way.

The PRC Foreign Minister emphasised that the Anti-Secession Law was not a piece of unenforceable legislation, while the US Department of State spokesman Sean McCormack described Chen's policy as " unhelpful ".

In 1923 a spokesman for the Soo Line Railroad said ( perhaps exaggerating ) that Marshfield shipped more dairy products than any other city in the US.

Allegations made by Balkan media sources of corruption and improper conduct by Ahtisaari were described by US State Department spokesman Tom Casey as " spurious ", adding that Ahtisaari's plan is the " best solution possible " and has the " full endorsement of the United States ".

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.

However, a spokesman for the US Mission to UN Office in Geneva ( UNOG ) said that " Accusations that U. S. government-contracted security guards, of whatever nationality, are mercenaries is inaccurate.

Amanpour is married to James Rubin, a former Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama.

In 1998 Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State Department, married Christiane Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN.

US military spokesman Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell reinforced this account on February 14, but a member of Iraq's parliament and an aide to al-Sadr have denied the claims.

He has also served as a national spokesman for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in the US.

The spokesman, Major Michael Shavers, said Saddam, captured by US troops in December, was entitled to all the rights under the Geneva Conventions.

The US spokesman did not give further details about Saddam Hussein's conditions of detention.

US State Department spokesman, Justin Higgins, described the decision as a " positive development since it removes the risk of the death penalty being carried out.

A spokesman for US forces in Iraq said the location of the crash was a pure coincidence.

Trust in the Kanamits seems to be justified when Patty, one of a staff of US government cryptographers led by Mr. Chambers, cracks the title of a Kanamit book the spokesman left behind at the UN.

These comments again drew criticism from some American officials, including the US State Department, a spokesman from which stated " We are seeing a troubling pattern of a high official of the UN who seems to be making it his business to criticize member states and, frankly, with misplaced and misguided criticisms.

The violence provoked international condemnation of those responsible ; US State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns declared that " these Islamic terrorists ... deserve special criticism and condemnation by the world community for these despicable acts ", while the Algerian FLN stated that " This barbarity is condemned by all religions, laws and morals of humanity.

In Washington, a State Department spokesman said US officials had contacted " both " sides to urge them to resolve their differences through dialogue.