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A Team Player Who Stands Apart

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Sep. 18 (Special Report) - Tension Between Leading or Blending In Marks Clinton’s Tenure at State

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It’s 3 a.m. Do You Know Where Hillary Clinton Is?

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Rothkopf - Aug. 23 (News Analysis) - The secretary has quietly begun rethinking the very nature of diplomacy and translating that vision into a revitalized State Department, one that approaches U.S. allies and rivals in ways that challenge long-held traditions.

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In Release of Journalists, Both Clintons Had Key Roles

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Mark Landler, Peter Baker - Aug. 05 (News Report) - Former President Bill Clinton left North Korea on Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea’s reclusive government and dined with the North’s ailing leader, Kim Jong-il.

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The Ghosts of Clintoncare

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Jul. 26 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama's strategy to pass health-care reform seems based on a simple principle: Whatever Bill Clinton did, do the opposite. Where Clinton and his team crafted their health-care reform plan in the executive branch, Obama has left the details of his effort almost entirely to Congress. Where Clinton pursued an ambitious reconstruction of the entire sector, Obama has sought to preserve existing insurance arrangements and win the support of industry players. Where Clinton spent a year developing his bill before even getting to Congress, Obama lashed his efforts to a tight (and apparently unrealizable) timetable. Even the atmospherics offer contrasts: Clinton's big push for reform came in a soaring 1993 speech before a joint session of Congress, in which he offered painstaking details of his plans; Obama made his argument to the nation at a news conference last week, addressing concerns more than specifying proposals. Obama's reluctance to follow Clinton's example is understandable: Few legislative failures have been as catastrophic as Clinton's on health-care reform. Yet the ghosts of the early 1990s still hover over today's debates.

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The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton

Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Peter Baker - May. 31 (Special Report) - Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet. Standing all by himself, the former president of the United States moved his eyes methodically across shelves of wooden carvings, jewelry and sculptures as he searched for something distinctive to bring his wife. “She used to look forward to me coming home from wherever I’ve been,” he mused with a laugh. “Now I’m afraid I’ll be second fiddle to whatever world leader she’s just met.”

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Hillary Clinton's diplomacy raises some eyebrows

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter - May. 24 (News Analysis) - For years as North Korea defied the West with its nuclear program, U.S. officials considered international negotiations their best chance, if not their only hope, for dealing with the renegade regime. So it came as a jolt when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to say recently that the Obama administration was throwing in the towel on the talks. The idea that North Korea would take part, she said, was "implausible, if not impossible."

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In Baghdad visit, Clinton reassures Iraqis

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Liz Sly, Caesar Ahmed - Apr. 26 (News Report) - During an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Saturday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to reassure anxious Iraqis that the U.S. would not abandon them despite plans to start withdrawing U.S. troops soon. Her visit coincided with a sudden surge of violence that had claimed the lives of nearly 160 people in the previous two days. But Clinton said she was confident that the bloodshed did not mean recent gains in security were being eroded.

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Hillary Clinton slips back into first lady mode

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Mar. 15 (News Analysis) - There was a quiet gesture of intimacy when Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama teamed up for an awards ceremony for women at the State Department last week. In an unscripted moment away from the cameras, Clinton reached out and gave the first lady's hand a squeeze. Like Clinton before her, Michelle Obama has had to go out to bat for her husband after his popularity hit a rough patch. “I believe in this nation and I believe in my husband,” she said in her first television interview as first lady as a poll showed Barack Obama’s approval ratings had slipped below George W Bush’s at the same stage of his presidency.

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Clinton to Visit Middle East Amid Calls for Radically New Peace Strategy

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week will make her first foray into Middle East diplomacy, attending a high-level conference on humanitarian assistance to Gaza and making the rounds of Israeli and Palestinian officials, at a time when a growing chorus of voices in the United States say the peace process needs a dramatically new approach.

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U.S., China Agree to Focus on Economy, Climate

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler - Feb. 22 (News Report) - China and the United States agreed Saturday to begin high-level consultations on combating the global economic crisis and climate change, with China's poor human rights record relegated as a lesser priority. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held extensive talks with a panoply of Chinese officials, including President Hu Jintao, and toured a new low-emissions power plant using General Electric technology to highlight the Obama administration's determination to form a partnership with China on reducing harmful emissions.

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Clinton Urges China to Keep Buying Treasuries

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Indira Lakshmanan - Feb. 22 (News Report) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged China to continue buying Treasury bonds to help finance President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. The two nations’ economies are intertwined and it wouldn’t be in China’s interest if the U.S. were unable to sell its government debt, Clinton said in an interview with Shanghai’s Dragon Television today. China knows it needs a healthy American economy as its biggest export market, she said, adding that the U.S. must take “drastic measures” to stimulate growth. “We are truly going to rise or fall together,” Clinton said. “By continuing to support American treasury instruments, the Chinese are recognizing” that interconnection.

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Hillary Clinton uses China visit to seek consensus on tackling global economic woes

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tania Branigan - Feb. 21 (News Report) - The United States and China could help lead a global economic recovery by working together, Hillary Clinton told a press conference in Beijing this morning. The US secretary of state has vowed to use her visit to increase co-operation between the two countries, but she has been criticised by campaigners for saying that disagreements over human rights, Taiwan and Tibet should not interfere with making progress on the economy, climate change and security issues.

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Dissidents Held During Clinton Beijing Visit

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Christopher Bodeen - Feb. 21 (News Report) - More than a dozen Chinese dissidents have been questioned, followed or detained during U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's weekend visit to Beijing, fellow activists said Saturday.

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Clinton Lauds U.S.-Japanese Relationship During Asia Trip

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Glenn Kessler, Blaine Harden - Feb. 17 (News Analysis) - The visit also helps sooth a national neurosis called "Japan passing." The term came to haunt Japan after President Bill Clinton made a nine-day visit to China in 1998 and did not drop by Japan to say hello. That non-visit by the secretary of state's husband helped spark what has become a chronic Japanese worry: That the focus of U.S. policy in East Asia has permanently shifted to China, when it is not obsessed with the interminable question of persuading North Korea to get rid of nuclear weapons.

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Hillary Clinton tours Asia

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Feb. 17 (News Analysis) - AMERICA’S new secretary of state is making a cautious start to an awkward job in unenviable circumstances. This week Hillary Clinton started her first official foreign tour in Asia, choosing to visit a region beset by severe economic and financial gloom

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Clinton aims to make her mark in China

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Paul Richter, Peter Spiegel - Feb. 15 (News Report) - When Hillary Rodham Clinton needed a way to restore her reputation after the failure of her 1990s healthcare initiative, China provided the opportunity. As first lady, Clinton delivered a fiery speech on human rights at a women's conference in Beijing in 1995, winning a worldwide following while dismaying her Chinese hosts, who banned coverage in the country's official media. Now, as President Obama's secretary of State, Clinton is again looking for a way to make a mark, and once more China beckons.

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Clinton's Arrival Buoys Mood At State Department

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Public Radio - By Michele Kelemen - Jan. 25 (News Analysis) - The Obama administration has put an early emphasis on diplomacy and development, breathing new life into the U.S. State Department with the introduction last week of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The rousing welcome ceremony on Thursday — the smiles and handshakes — told it all. This is a department that feels back in business, says Steve Kashkett, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association.

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Clinton Moves to Widen Role of State Dept.

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Mark Landler, Helene Cooper - Dec. 23 (Special Report) - Even before taking office, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seeking to build a more powerful State Department, with a bigger budget, high-profile special envoys to trouble spots and an expanded role in dealing with global economic issues at a time of crisis.

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Bill Clinton's Complicated World

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By John R. Emshwiller - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - Bill Clinton's ties to Nigerian businessman Gilbert Chagoury illustrate the kind of complicated relationships with foreign figures the former president is now disclosing to pave the way for Hillary Clinton to become secretary of state.

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Clinton builds loyalist empire

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

The Times - By Sarah Baxter - Dec. 07 (News Report) - When Hillary Clinton was offered the job of America’s top diplomat, she made one non-negotiable demand: she must be allowed to take her own team of loyalists with her to the State Department. A new “Hillaryland”, the word coined for devotees of the first lady in the 1990s, is being assembled for Foggy Bottom, where the State Department is based, in sharp contrast to the bold example set by Barack Obama’s cabinet “team of rivals”, composed of the president-elect’s former competitors and opponents.

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Obama answers liberal critics on personnel choices

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Globe - By Foon Rhee - Nov. 26 (News Report) - President-elect Barack Obama, rejecting liberals' criticism of his emerging cabinet, today strongly defended his decision to choose more experienced, centrist aides for his inner circle, arguing that the nation needs sure hands in a time of turmoil -- and that it's his job to bring the change he promised voters.

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Clinton-Obama Détente - From Top Rival to Top Aide

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The thaw in the resentful relationship between the most powerful woman in the Democratic Party and her younger male rival began at the party’s convention this summer, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton gave such a passionate speech supporting Senator Barack Obama that his top aides leapt out of their chairs backstage to give her a standing ovation as she swept past. Mr. Obama, who was in the first steps of what would become a strategic courtship, called afterward to thank her. By then, close aides to Mrs. Clinton said, she had come to respect the campaign Mr. Obama had run against her. At the least, she knew he understood like no one else the brutal strains of their epic primary battle.

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Could Secretary of State Clinton disagree with President Obama without undermining him?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By John Dickerson - Nov. 22 (News Analysis) - By picking Clinton, Obama may be making some kind of special political play, removing one of his rivals to protect himself from political harm, but I think he's more serious than that.

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Husband's foreign deals may pose issue for Clinton

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By By SHARON THEIMER - Nov. 15 (News Report) - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former President Bill Clinton's globe-trotting business deals and fundraising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and could cause complications if President-elect Barack Obama picks her to be secretary of state.

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Some Clinton Fund-Raisers Are Still Simmering

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Luo, Griff Palmer - Aug. 27 (News Report) - A significant number of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's top fund-raisers remain on the sidelines and unwilling to work for Senator Barack Obama, a nettlesome problem that appears to be contributing to the campaign's failure to keep pace with ambitious fund-raising goals it set for the general election.

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