From the day she walked in, we all knew that this day would come.
Tomorrow will be her last official day as Secretary of State. I honestly have no words to describe how grateful I feel for everything she has done and for the ability afforded by the department to follow her so closely over the years.
Here are two huge events on her calendar for tomorrow. Then will come the great silence while she continues her recuperation out of our sight. Godspeed beautiful lady. We will be here on the other side when you emerge. Maybe you can send me your book-signing schedule. Readers here will be hungry to know when you are coming to a bookstore near them.
Secretary Clinton To Announce Launch of Up to $86.5 Million in Public-Private Partnerships
Notice to the Press
Office of the SpokespersonWashington, DCJanuary 30, 2013
On Thursday, January 31, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will celebrate the global impact of public-private partnerships created under her tenure and launch four new initiatives valued at up to $86.5 million, at the U.S. Department of State. These new initiatives include: efforts to advance women’s clean energy entrepreneurship; a global partnership to promote affordable Internet access in poor communities; a new commitment to the Global Equality Fund which aims to protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons worldwide; and new investments in the clean cookstoves sector.
Secretary Clinton will be joined by Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer and the Special Representative for Global Partnerships Kris Balderston. Wanjira Mathai, daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and board member of the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies, will deliver remarks.
Since 2009, the Secretary has worked to strengthen and deepen U.S. diplomacy and development around the world by fostering partnerships between the Department of State and the private sector. Such partnerships have leveraged the creativity, innovation, and core business resources of private partners for greater impact on global issues. To date, the Department has worked with over 1,100 partners and mobilized more than $650 million in public and private resources to support key foreign policy objectives including climate change mitigation, women’s empowerment, economic growth, and human rights.
The event will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the Department of State.
Remarks on American Leadership
Speaker: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary, U.S. Department of State
Presider: Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will deliver remarks on American leadership.
Still4Hill 
This makes me so sad. I will really miss her so much, I hope you will keep posting about her.
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Rumana, we’re going to need you looking for her in NYC ( am I right that you live in her area?).If I lived in NY every weekend I’d be sneaking to see her by her neighborhood! I’m going to miss her a lot, we have to be sending messages to her at Chelsea’s FB, we know she delivers them to her, and I think she’ll be visiting ReadyForHillary ( I hope) and let’s tell her about STILL4HILL site!( I’ve told Chelsea about it before, I will again)!
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vcal you are right I live in the same neighborhood, I am hoping to see more of her. I will keep Still informed if I ever see or meet her. When she writes her memoirs I’ll be first line for the book signing. 🙂
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Thank you, vcal! That’s very sweet of you!
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I hope I can find a way to do that without depending on rumors and gossip. I hate that!
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I know you hate gossip and rumors! That is why so many us go to your blog to get the right information and news about her. I hope someone from her inner circle will contact you to provide updates.
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Yes, I want the inside scoop on her book-signing schedule so folks here will know when she will be near them, that and her speaking schedule and op-eds.
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She will be missed but its a rest well deserved, but think whenever she pops out from catching up on 20 years of sleep we will hear about it because well she is Hillary
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WOW Rumana, you’re so lucky! and she is too to have loyal supporters near her. Please always have your camera ready, just in case, tell her about us and share everything with us! I can dream, no?
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LOL! Vcal, remember in September 2011 when Rumana spotted her buying scrunchies at Rite Aid? We were all saying “Stop her! She’ll wear one to UNGA tomorrow! NO!!!!” And Rumana kept saying she needed an iPhone? Well, she got one right after that and she never puts it down. She even sleeps with it!
By the way, Hillary DID wear a scrunchie the next day at UNGA. 🙂
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That was some live reporting. LOL! That was so funny.
I remember you screaming to take them out of her hand. 🙂 I wish I had iphone then.
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LOL!!!! I remember, and you said the agents would not let you stop her. 🙂
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They would have arrested me. LOL!
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I would have bailed you out.
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I know you would have. 😄 Can you imagine the news. Crazy woman arrested at Rite Aid for snatching scrunches out of Sec. of State’s hands. LOL!!!
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ROTFL!!!!!!
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YES! I remember that it was Rumana who passed that info to us, and I just couldn’t believe it and also about the parade in Chappaqua .Thank you Rumana! Take your dogs with you when you spot Hillary and Bill doing so,become friends with them and keep us informed!!! Just dreaming and kidding!
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I know I’m very lucky. I will have my phone ready to take pics. when I see her.
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