The pictures are from this morning. The first is my new "I-can't-get-enough-of-it" picture.
Secretaries Clinton, Gates and Geithner, Administrator Shah and MCC CEO Yohannes to Address the Presidential Policy
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Secretary of Defense Gates, Secretary of the Treasury Geithner, USAID Administrator Shah and Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Yohannes
Washington, DC
September 27, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will participate in a roundtable discussion on the Administration’s new Global Development Policy at the annual U.S. Global Leadership Coalition Conference on September 28 at 3:00 p.m. at the Grand Hyatt Washington.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner, USAID Administrator Raj Shah and Millennium Challenge Corporation CEO Daniel Yohannes will also participate in the roundtable, which will be moderated by Frank Sesno, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University. The audience will include prominent business, civic, faith-based and non-profit leaders.
On September 22, President Obama signed a Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, the first of its kind by a U.S. administration. The directive calls for the elevation of development as a core pillar of American power and charts a course for development, diplomacy and defense to reinforce and complement one another in an integrated, comprehensive approach to national security.
The Department of State plays a central role in achieving the goals of the PPD. The Secretary of State has responsibility for ensuring that diplomacy and development are effectively coordinated and mutually reinforcing in the operation of our foreign policy. In support of the PPD and the National Security Strategy, Secretary Clinton is overseeing the first Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, which will propose steps to strengthen our diplomatic and development capabilities to better meet our foreign policy goals and operationalize our new Global Development Policy across State and USAID.
This event will be open to credentialed members of the media and live streamed on www.usglc.org.
Secretary Clinton to Address Conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia
Washington, DC
September 27, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will address a conference on “The American Experience in Southeast Asia, 1946-1975” sponsored by the Department of State’s Office of the Historian, on September 29 at approximately 9:50 a.m. at the Department of State.
Following Secretary Clinton’s remarks, Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador Richard Holbrooke will address the conference. Ambassador John Negroponte will address the conference on September 30.
Additional sessions will provide analysis of the American experience in Southeast Asia as a complement to the completion of the Indochina/Vietnam War documentary histories prepared by the Office of the Historian in the Foreign Relations of the United States series. The Office of the Historian has printed over 24,500 pages of policy related documents in approximately 26 volumes.
The program will also include a panel on the media and the Vietnam War to discuss the impact of the press on public opinion and United States policy. Marvin Kalb will moderate the panel, which will consist of journalists who reported from Vietnam or about the Vietnam War and a public affairs official who directed media relations for Embassy Saigon. One broadcast journalist—Morley Safer—and two print journalists—William Beecher and Edith Lederer—will participate, as will the former Director of Media Relations at Embassy Saigon, Barry Zorthian. The conference will include former U.S. policy makers and members of the academic community.
The conference takes place from 9:40 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on September 29th and from 8:55 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. on September 30th.
For the full program of events, click here.
