3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment IV April 2011

In early April, Israeli President Shimon Peres visited Washington and Secretary Clinton met with him at Blair House.  Those two, when they are together, always appear to have a romance going.  The Clintons and Mrs. Rodham all went to San Diego to attend the retirement party of the former White House chef, Chief Culinary Specialist Oscar Flores, aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Makin Island. She released the 2010 Human Rights Report annoying some since she included the U.S. in it for the first time, a move she defended logically in her remarks.  In the face of one of several threats of a government shutdown in 2011,  Passport Day was cancelled.  Mme. Secretary co-chaired  the closing session of the second annual U.S.-China High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE) with Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong, at the Department of State on April 12.  She attended a NATO conference on Libya in Germany, and visited earthquake-stricken Japan where she dropped in on the Emperor and Empress.   Back home, she made an appearance with Charlie Rose and was named among Time's 100 Most Influential.   As April drew to a close, she swore in some cute temporary staff members on "Take your child to work day," and accepted the resignation of P.J. Crowley as State Department spokesperson.