3rd Annual Hillary Rodham Clinton Year in Review: Installment VI June 2011

June started off in DC with some bilaterals  The new Brazilian FM Patriota visited for the first time.  Mme. Secretary accepted the George C. Marshall Award (and seriously needs that museum/library I keep advocating for in Seneca Falls). Then it was home to NY where she attended the wedding of Tricia Nixon Cox's son Christopher wearing a smashing teal coat.

Back in DC she launched the Women's World Cup Initiative and welcomed Angela Merkel on a state visit to Washington.  The next day, she hit the tarmac again for a conference on Libya in Abu-Dhabi, and then stops in Zambia, Tanzania, and finally a stop in Ethiopia where she attended a meeting of the African Union where she delivered remarks partially in a blackout.  She had to leave early due to a volcano eruption and mysteriously took three days to get home.  We later discovered that her plane developed mechanical problems and they had to layover in Dubai for awhile.  She was in DC for a Japan-U.S. event which she co-hosted with outgoing Defense Secretary Gates, and then was off to a conference in Guatemala.  From there she flew to Montego Bay for a CARICOM conference.

Back in DC, she appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to testify on Afghanistan.  She spoke with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who won the Nobel Peace Prize later in the year.   She was received enthusiastically at her own department when she delivered her Gay Pride Month remarks to GLIFAA  and declared that  gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights ... once and for all.

Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger had passed away earlier in the month, and she delivered remarks at his memorial.   Mme. Scretary ended the month with visits to Hungary, where she dedicated the Lantos Institute in Budapest and Lithuania where she spoke at Tech Camp Vilnius among other venues.  We see her with President of Lithuania,  Dalia Grybauskaite. 


Speeches: George C. Marshall Award; Promoting Commercial Opportunities conference.in Iraq;  Women’s World Cup Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports; African Growth and Opportunity Forum; 1000 Days Initiative; Support for the Central American Security Strategy; CARICOM; GLIFAA; Eagleburger Memorial; Lantos Institute;  Tech Camp Vilnius.


Travel: Abu-Dhabi; Zambia;  Tanzania; Ethiopia; Guatemala; Jamaica.


Op-Eds: Joint Op-Ed with William Hague on Bosnia-Herzegovina; Op-Ed condemning the violence in Syria.