CNN Has Obama Nominee Connect Mandela to Obama — Without Disclosing He’s an Obama Nominee On Friday morning CNN hosted Richard Stengel, an Obama administration nominee for Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, to discuss the President’s connections to the late Nelson Mandela without disclosing Stengel’s pending State Department position. Stengel is the former managing editor of Time magazine and hailed Obama’s “eloquent” words: “I thought the President was very eloquent yesterday, talking about what President Mandela meant to him. I think, in many ways, Mandela was partially responsible for Barack Obama’s own political awakening.”

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