For the third time, we will count down to the new year with a review of each month the the year past beginning, as always, with January 2011.
- Travel: Brasilia for the inauguration of Dilma Rouseff; UAE; a surprise visit to Yemen; Oman; Qatar; Mexico; Haiti.
- Speeches: Her now famous Doha speech at Forum for the Future; a tribute to the late Richard Holbrooke; in the advent of President Hu's visit, an address on the future of U.S.-Chinese relations.
- Events: Hosted a day each of bilateral meetings with the foreign ministers of China and Japan; attended the arrival of President Hu at the White House as well as the state dinner (escorted by a handsome white-haired gent.); attended the State of the Union address.
The year/month began with the New Year's Day inauguration of Rouseff in
Brazil and ended with a phenomenal Sunday where she made the rounds of
five morning talk shows, hopped on her plane for Haiti, and spent a
whilrwind day there touring a cholera clinic and meeting all the
presidential candidates.
