Bluster, Trump and diplomacy with North Korea

Presidents select their secretaries of state, who serve at their bosses’ pleasure.
Conflicts between the chief executive and the cabinet member who oversees foreign affairs are as old as the republic. President George Washington’s first secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson, or, at least, his supporters, publicly clashed with his boss over whether to support the French Revolution. When the French republic declared war on Great Britain, and the United States remained neutral, Jefferson