Thursday, December 29, 2011

3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment IX September 2011

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 the new leadership.

Returning to DC, she attended the president's speech on jobs to a joint session of Congress.  By the weekend she was home in New York which, oddly, was considered official travel as she visited the New York Stock Exchange as part of a weekend of memorials both  she and President Clinton would attend over the 9/11 weekend.   Back in DC, she participated in a women's health event with President George W. Bush.  Meanwhile, the media calls for her to run for president in 2012 continued to roll into the news feeds.


Subsequent domestic travel to San Francisco was also official,  She participated in Australia – United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) and delivered the keynote address at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Women and the Economy Summit (WES).

The next official travel was back home to New York for UNGA and CGI with too many events and sideline bilaterals to enumerate.  As September drew to a close, Mme. Secretary, still being barraged by media to please run for POTUS in 2012, made her way to Little Rock to celebrate the  20th anniversary of Bill Clinton's declaration to run for POTUS.  Many of us still have hope that she will do the same, sooner rather than later  Meanwhile, we are planning on writing her in in our primaries. 

Speeches: A New Future Dawning in Libya, Smart Power Approach to Counterterrorism, Release of the 13th Annual Report on International Religious Freedom,  Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Partnership,  Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Women and the Economy Summit,  Women’s Political Participation at UN Women Event, High Level Meeting on Nutrition, High-Level Meeting on Nuclear Safety Nuclear Safety, Remarks on the Global Counterterrorism Forum, With Chelsea Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting Conversation, UN High-Level Meeting on Somalia.


Travel: Paris,  New York, San Francisco.


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