Saturday, December 29, 2012

4th Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment X October 2012

October commenced with Mme. Secretary still in NYC for a final UNGA event on small states.
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She returned to D.C. the following day to give an address on travel and tourism.  On the third she hosted the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission and presented the McGovern Awards  with which she herself had been honored the previous year.
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For the next several days she worked behind closed doors and emerged on the 10th to receive Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the State Department.

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 On the 12th she met with Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata and delivered a speech at the  Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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Home for the weekend on the 13th she was out and about in Chappaqua with her best guy and stopped to say hello to their congresswoman Nita Lowey who was campaigning.  These two are so cute together.  Note in the second picture with Lowey they are holding hands.
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In Peru on the 15th and 16th she met with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala, delivered a speech on women as drivers of growth and inclusion, and sent shock waves around the world by taking full responsibility for the September 11th events in Benghazi. 
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Back in D.C. on the 18th she gave a speech at Georgetown on energy diplomacy.
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In the north of Haiti on the 22nd she and her best guy dedicated an industrial park.
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There were  some State Department events; an awards ceremony and a swearing in of an ambassador, and she met with Brazilian Foreign Minister Patriota.
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On the 25th she inaugurated the  Work-Life and Family Month Event at the State Department wearing one of my favorite jackets.
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She spent her 65th birthday weekend privately and quietly with her family in Connecticut.
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Then she was off on foreign travel again - to Algeria and the Balkans. 
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Here is the archive for October 2012.