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Archive for December, 2011

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The sound that comes out of me is something between a sigh and a gasp. Warning:  There  is nothing objective about the post below.  It is entirely personal. Some of you will remember this post from March 31 of this year: CNN Video: Bernard-Henri Lévy Validates Hillary Clinton on Libya.   In short order after I posted [...]

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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 [...]

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Obama, Clinton top most-admired lists for 2011 By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are the nation’s most admired man and woman — again — in the annual USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Each leads their category with 17% of votes in top 10 lists that favor the most familiar names in [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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