September is always a super-busy month because the UN General Assembly meets in New York toward the end of the month at the same time that the Clinton Global Initiative is held. This year it was even busier than usual since it began with the enormous Mid-East Peace Initiative.
September 1
The White House Rose Garden was the setting for the peace process to get underway. We see the President flanked by Mme. Secretary and Special Envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell.
September 2
The talks are underway at the State Department.
More “guys shaking hands in front of Mme. Secretary.”
September 7
The Secretary’s annual Iftar at the State Department
September 8
A foreign policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations
September 10
The 2010 Democracy Video Challenge Awards
September 13
Andrews Air Force Base
Departing for the Middle East.
September 14
The Multi-country Mid-East Peace talks begin in Sharm el-Sheikh
What a cute face looking at Egyptian President Mubarak.
Guys shaking hands in front of Mme. Secretary
September 15
Leg two of the talks in Jerusalem and she met her old friend President Shimon Peres who is always happy to see her as is evident. They are adorable together.
Special Envoy Mitchell behind her here.
With Palestinian PM Fayyad
With her Israeli counterpart FM Avidor Leiberman – a rare meeting. She is with Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Peres more often.
Here, very cordial with DM Barak.
And with Bibi
Here with Netanyahu and Abbas
September 16 Leg three in Ramallah
With Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (just smashing in that orange pantsuit)
With Abbas
The Hillary-walk! Very Smart Power!
More Hillary-walk
September 17
Back in DC with Austalia’s Kevin Rudd who HAD been PM but at this point had become FM. He seemed to enjoy his visit despite the demotion. Who can blame him? She’s stunning!
Those eyes!
With Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa at the US-Indonesian Joint Commission
Sunday, September 19
NYC Pakistan Flood Meeting prior to UNGA starting. (With Pakistan’s FM Qureshi … of course!)
Note: Much was made of her hair. Excuse me? She was there doing the business of State! She always looks gorgeous in that electric blue pantsuit. In the face of the floods in Pakistan, you would think people would have other topics to discuss beyond a hair clip!
The late Richard Holbrooke in the background.
September 20
Secretary Clinton with Bernard Kouchner, then FM of France, and Haitian PM Jean-Max Bellerive signing MOUs on Haitian recovery.
Bilaterals that day:
With Patricia Espinosa of Mexico
EU High Rep Cathy Ashton
Israeli DM Ehud Barak
September 21
The big event of the day was her appearance with Bill at the Clinton Global Initiative.
(Cuteness!!!!!)
She was talking about clean cook stoves.
More cuteness!
Later that day there was a meeting of the Middle East Quartet at the UN: Tony Blair, Mme. Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon, Sergei Lavrov, Catherine Ashton.
An AWESOME speech. Maybe this one is my favorite of the year! “1,000 Days: Change a Life, Change the Future”
She co-hosted this event with Irish FM Micheal Martin.
September 22 in NYC: NATO-Russia Council at the Waldorf
Greeting FMs Hague (UK) and Davutoglu (Turkey)
Sergei Lavrov in the background here. Cheekbones in the foreground!
Hmmmm… men might well make passes at this girl in glasses!
With El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez (L) and Honduran President Porfirio Lobo, Secretary Clinton signed a memorandum of understanding for the Building Remittance Investment for Development Growth and Entrepreneurship (BRIDGE) Initiative with Honduras and El Salvador, at the Helmsley Hotel.
At UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s Millennium Development Goals’ Maternal and Child Health event, at the UN.
Bilaterals
With South Africa”s FM Mashabane
And with Russia’s FM Sergei Lavrov
Friday September 24
With Lebanese President Michel Sleiman, at the Palace Hotel
With Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Monday, September 27, it is evident that being based in NY and spending her weekend there have a marvelous effect on Mme. Secretary who showed up at the Security Council looking like this!
Back in DC on the 28th, she joined Secretaries Gates and Geithner, Administrator Shah and Millenium Challenge Corporation CEO Yohannes participate in a roundtable discussion on the Administration’s new Global Development Policy at the annual U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Conference, at the Grand Hyatt Washington.
September 29
Bilaterals
EU High Representative Cathy Ashton
With German FM Guido Westerwelle
With Salvadoran Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez Bonilla
She was speaking at the State Department about the Viet Nam War. This look!
September 30
With Panamanian Vice-President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela (another Hillary-walk)
What a busy month! The Secretary ended September with a beautiful smile, and she should! She managed to pack a great deal into those 30 days! Very impressive!
She may have been talking about stoves, but I don’t think that’s what Bill was thinking about. I love his silly face as they’re about to hug.
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That’s what I was thinking, too. He had *other things* on his mind.
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He was studying her very closely. I wonder if those “other things” had something to do with what he was staring at.
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One can only speculate. Mme. Secretary looks very fetching. Superb posture. Pretty figure. More interesting than cook stoves, although the speech was very instructive.
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Wait a minute! Her right hand is where?!
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LOL!
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It’s not nice to start things you can’t finish, Madame Secretary. She left after her remarks. That wasn’t very nice.
Anyway, I think this answers the question of why they’re never seated next to each other. The culprit is not who I expected it would be.
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She’s smirking, too!
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On a non-butt-grabbing note (or maybe not 😉 ), did you see who was voted most admired woman again this year?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-12-27-most-admired-poll_N.htm
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Yes! Congrats to Mme. Secretary! 🙂
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I love how in the picture where she and bill are about to hug, it looks like their noses are touching and they’re about to kiss. its so cute!
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😀 Very cute!
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They didn’t kiss though. She ran into him at full speed for a hug and took a minute to let go.
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no i know they didn’t kiss, but in that pic it looks like they’re about to, instead they just hugged. i think if they actually kissed in public, thats all that would be talked about and they know that
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… which is sad considering they’ve been together for decades.
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I agree. They should be comfortable expressing love for each other, but they know that whatever religion Americans think we are, all of us are Puritans.
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I wouldn’t want to see them all over each other, but they should be able to kiss like a normal couple. Nobody gives the First Couple any grief about being affectionate, or the Second Couple for that matter and they’re more in the Clinton’s age range, so everybody from third on back should be able to kiss freely.
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I think the Al/Tipper performance and the public reaction made an impression on Hillary.
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That was not a normal kiss that was (edited for possible youth readership) a pre-game warm-up. I don’t want to know that much about the Clinton’s romantic habits. A run of the mill kiss is fine.
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Which is probably why HRC and WJC are careful.
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I think they’re too distanr with each other some times. If they showed an interest in each other, maybe the rumors about their marriage being a power alliance would subside.
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I can’t believe people still speculate about their marriage when everyone else’s has fallen apart. Geez!
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That’s good point. They’re still together and so many couples who looked like they were together forever fifteen years ago are divorced now. What ever they have going on they like.
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Harry Benson on the Clintons and PDA.
This is the link to the full article.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/214891/picturing-america/myrna-blyth
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Sorry, the actual quote is from Myrna Blyth former editor of Ladies’ Home Journal.
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Cute. Very genuine. Thanks for sharing this!
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The shots of Hill with Peres are simply delightful.
Nobody keeps track of Hillary like you do, sister. Finding out where she is and who she’s with on any given day is just a click away, thanks to you.
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Thanks, Uppity! One thing about Hillary with Peres – guaranteed adorable pictures.
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Great photo’s Still. No wonder she is the most admired women of the year. She has held that position for many years. I think 15 times since First Lady. What a fantastic year this women has given the country and the world. Never giving in, never giving up. She just keeps going. God Speed Madame Secretary and my congradulations to the best of the best.
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You know, when I put these reviews together and experience all the activities she packs into her life (also when I see Amy Dugan’s blog about Bill) I KNOW I HAVE EVIDENCE that the Clintons are selfless public servants who sacrifice their personal lives to service. People who say she is greedy for power (yes, those CDS people are still out there) need only look here to see that NOBODY would drive themselves the way she does for the sake of power.
I have never seen anyone add in so many outreaches to the general populations in the countries she visits as she does – even when it is predictable that the audience is skeptical.
This woman is simply phenomenal, and when we all see that as the years go by she just keeps getting more and more beautiful, I know that it comes from inside, from her heart.
We are so lucky to have her!
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yes, we´re so lucky to have her, I wish she could live and stay with us forever!Blessings to all of you!
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