In November 2011, the very first post here was the announcement that Dorothy Howell Rodham was hospitalized and that Mme. Secretary has cancelled her trip to London. We all knew it was serious since she never cancels trips. Mrs. Rodham passed away early on the morning of the first, and she was mourned across all [...]
Archive for December, 2011
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment XI November 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Track Hillary Clinton on Americans Elect!
Posted in 2012 Election, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Women in Government, tagged 2012 Election, Americans Elect, Hillary 2012, Hillary Clinton, Hillary for President, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hillary4POTUS on December 30, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Our friend Brian Augustine found that HRC has been added to Americans Elect . I signed up and am tracking her. If you have a little trouble with step 2, be persistent. I had to do it three or four times before I finally got to step 3. Let’s all register and start tracking her! Let’s [...]
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment X October 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
October 2011 began so lightheartedly, joyously. The Clintons were in Little Rock celebrating the president’s 20th anniversary of throwing his hat in the ring. Back in DC after the celebratory weekend, she hosted a African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program. Later in the week she spoke to women entrepreneurs in Santo Domingo. In DC again, she met [...]
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment IX September 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, Year in Review, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
September, the month of U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) , both of which take place in New York, began, for Mme. Secretary, in Paris, a city she visited often in 2011. She always looks particularly joyous in Paris. On this occasion, she was there for another meeting on Libya, including [...]
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment VIII August 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mme. Secretary’s first official act in August was to swear in Gary Locke as Ambassador to China. The August cabinet meeting was photo-oped (debt-ceiling crisis – inspire confidence – everybody say “cheese!”). The State Department hosted baseball players from quake-stricken Fukushima, Japan hosted by two icons of the American work ethic: Hillary Clinton and Cal [...]
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment VII July 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary for President, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mme. Secretary began July as she ended June, on foreign travel in Vilnius Lithuania. Her next stop was Spain where she was greeted by FM Trinidad Jimenez and paid a visit to King Juan Carlos who clearly was charmed. Then it was wheels up for home and the holiday weekend. She returned to DC on [...]
Putin: Let Them Wear Tin-Foil Hats!
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Russia, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State, Vladimir Putin on December 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Vladimir Putin, the beleaguered PM of Russia and Presidential candidate, under attack country-wide for flawed parliamentary elections, fights protests with insults that the crowds have become adept at turning back on him. This VOA article today provides some insight into the nature of the demonstrations, including reactions to an accusation from Putin involving our girl. [...]
3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment VI June 2011
Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, state department, U.S. Department of State, tagged Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, State Department, U.S. Department of State on December 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
June started off in DC with some bilaterals The new Brazilian FM Patriota visited for the first time. Mme. Secretary accepted the George C. Marshall Award (and seriously needs that museum/library I keep advocating for in Seneca Falls). Then it was home to NY where she attended the wedding of Tricia Nixon Cox’s son Christopher [...]





























