Hillary Clinton's Message to Congressional Women

Hillary joined in the "Democratic Woodstock" (credit: Ana Navarro) on Capitol Hill today with this message.

Hillary Clinton with Nancy Pelosi

Hillary and Bill Clinton attended a dinner last night honoring Nancy Pelosi. According to this article, the dinner was held at the Italian Embassy, and Tony Bennett was there to serenade his pal with his classic tribute to San Francisco.

Hillary Clinton: You're helping to make history again

Today, I’d like to tell you about a few of the candidates Onward Together has been able to support in their historic campaigns, thanks to the support of our official members like you.

If you’re ready to elect Lucy, Gina, Stacey, Deb, and hundreds more Democrats this fall, make a donation right now.

• Lucy McBath is a mother, wife, businesswoman, and activist who is running for Congress in the 6th district of Georgia. After her son, Jordan Davis, was shot and killed at a gas station in Florida by a man objecting to the music Jordan was playing in his car, Lucy turned her grief into action by fighting for both gun safety and criminal justice reform. I was honored to get to know Lucy on the campaign trail in 2015 and 2016, and I’m honored now to support her in her campaign.
• Gina Ortiz Jones is an American Iraq War veteran, intelligence officer, and candidate for Congress in the 23rd district of Texas. Gina’s focus is on creating good-paying jobs and expanding health care options in Texas. If Gina wins in November, she could become the first lesbian, Iraq War veteran, and first-generation Filipina-American to hold a US House seat in Texas. It was a joy to spend some time with Gina recently at a fundraiser for first-time female candidates.
• Stacey Abrams is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Democratic nominee for governor of Georgia who has served as House Minority Leader, founded a voter registration organization, and written eight romance novels. Now she’s running for governor to expand education opportunities and strengthen the economy in Georgia. I was thrilled to endorse Stacey before her primary win in May -- if she wins in November, she’ll be the first black woman governor in America.
• Deb Haaland is a lawyer, the daughter of two veterans, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, and a candidate for Congress in the 1st district of New Mexico. If Deb wins in November, she’ll be the first Native woman elected to Congress. In addition to being a longtime volunteer on Democratic campaigns, Deb is also a proud alum of the New Mexico affiliate of Emerge America -- one of our Onward Together partners.

Not only has this team remained committed to our values and to this fight, but we’ve been able to support more than thirty smart, strong candidates across the country in their campaigns to make our country more fair and more equal. Make a donation today to help Onward Together find and support even more candidates like these -- and cross even more firsts off of our list:

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Onward!

Hillary

Email from Hillary Clinton

Friend --
First of all, thank you. To have your support in this next venture means so much to me. Onward Together is the true culmination of a great deal of thinking and listening over the last few months, and I'm excited to continue sharing our work with you.
It's been amazing to watch what the groups Onward Together is uplifting have been up to -- from recruiting thousands of young people to run for office to organizing at town halls across the country. I wanted to make sure you knew all the good they were doing, so I'll be passing on updates every once in a while. (See the first one about Indivisible below.)
The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of traveling, seeing family, and making edits to my next book, which is my most personal yet. It's a book about what happened in the 2016 election, what we can learn from it, and what we can all do now. But even more than that, it's a book about resilience -- about getting knocked down and getting back up. I can't wait for you to be able to read it in September, and I look forward to seeing many of you across the country this fall.
I also had the a chance to see Wonder Woman finally, and it was just as inspirational as I'd suspected a movie about a strong, powerful woman in a fight to save the world from international disaster would be.
I hope you're all enjoying your summers, and that you get a chance to relax with the people you love. Thank you, again, for your continued support. I can't do any of this work without you. This team is one I'll always be proud to be a part of -- I hope you will, too.
Onward!
Hillary

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The organization: Indivisible
The organizers: Leah Greenberg, former staffer for Representative Tom Perriello of Virginia, and her husband Ezra Levin, former staffer for Representative Lloyd Doggett of Texas.
The mission: To fuel a progressive grassroots network to defeat the Trump agenda by holding each and every member of Congress accountable to their constituents.
The story: Leah and Ezra came up with the Indivisible Guide to affecting change in Congress over drinks with friends a few weeks after the 2016 election. They put their initial 23-page google doc online, and it blew up -- it's now been downloaded more than 2 million times and inspired more than 5,800 local Indivisible chapters across the country, including at least two in each congressional district.
The latest: Indivisible is financially independent, but they're great friends to the progressive movement. Together with organizations like Planned Parenthood, Indivisible had led the charge in directing thousands of people to town hall meetings across the country and hundreds of thousands of calls to members of Congress -- so much so that they have been credited as a force in the fight that led to the defeat of the Republicans' repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
The next step: Republican leadership may not be letting up in their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but Indivisible isn't letting up, either.
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Hillary Clinton Pays Tribute to Yale Classmate and Friend Carolyn Ellis Staton

Hillary Clinton leaves Paris-Yates Chapel at the University of Mississippi after speaking at a memorial service for Carolyn Ellis Staton, on Monday, May 22, 2017

Hillary Clinton in Oxford today for Carolyn Ellis Staton funeral

By Staff Report

Published Monday, May 22, 2017

Former first lady and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is in Oxford today for the funeral of Carolyn Ellis Staton, who passed away late last week.
Ellis Staton, a longtime Oxford resident, has been close friends with President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton since college.
Ms. Clinton is in Oxford today for Ms. Ellis Staton’s memorial service, scheduled for 11 a.m. on the Ole Miss campus at the Paris Yates Chapel. She spoke at today’s memorial service in honor of Ms. Ellis Staton.
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Former presidential nominee @HillaryClinton speaks of her time knowing Ms. Staton at Paris-Yates chapel pic.twitter.com/oM1QkzNDXF

— Daily Mississippian (@thedm_news) May 22, 2017

Girl Scouts Honor Female Icons for Women's History Month

Posted: Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Girl Scouts pays tribute to iconic women in history with photo shoot

Hillary Clinton is among the female leaders tributed in a photo series from New York-area Girl Scouts in celebration of Women's History Month. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

By Kelcie Willis

Cox Media Group National Content Desk

NEW YORK —

The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is celebrating Women's History Month with a special series of photographs.

ABC News reported that New York-area Girl Scouts were chosen from over 300 applicants to dress as female leaders such as Amelia Earhart, Lucille Ball, Vera Wang and Condoleezza Rice.

Tricia Messeroux, Toddlewood.com creator and photographer was behind the shoot. Her website of photos turns kids into celebrities as seen on movie posters and red carpets of the Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes.

SNIP

Female leaders represented include former Demoncratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, actress Whoopi Goldberg; NASA mathematicians Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson; entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker; astronaut Mae Jemison; singer Celia Cruz and Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low.
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Highlights from the Las Vegas Dem Debate: Guns

COOPER: Senator Webb, thank you very much. Let’s move on to some of the most pressing issues facing our country right now, some of the biggest issues right now in the headlines today. We’re going to start with guns. The shooting in Oregon earlier this month, once again it brought the issue of guns into the national conversation. Over the last week, guns have been the most discussed political topic on Facebook by two to one. Senator Sanders, you voted against the Brady bill that mandated background checks and a waiting period. You also supported allowing riders to bring guns in checked bags on Amtrak trains. For a decade, you said that holding gun manufacturers legally responsible for mass shootings is a bad idea. Now, you say you’re reconsidering that. Which is it: shield the gun companies from lawsuits or not?
SANDERS: Let’s begin, Anderson, by understanding that Bernie Sanders has a D-minus voting rating (ph) from the NRA. Let’s also understand that back in 1988 when I first ran for the United States Congress, way back then, I told the gun owners of the state of Vermont and I told the people of the state of Vermont, a state which has virtually no gun control, that I supported a ban on assault weapons. And over the years, I have strongly avoided instant background checks, doing away with this terrible gun show loophole. And I think we’ve got to move aggressively at the federal level in dealing with the straw man purchasers. Also I believe, and I’ve fought for, to understand that there are thousands of people in this country today who are suicidal, who are homicidal, but can’t get the healthcare that they need, the mental healthcare, because they don’t have insurance or they’re too poor. I believe that everybody in this country who has a mental crisis has got to get mental health counseling immediately. COOPER: Do you want to shield gun companies from lawsuits?
SANDERS: Of course not. This was a large and complicated bill. There were provisions in it that I think made sense. For example, do I think that a gun shop in the state of Vermont that sells legally a gun to somebody, and that somebody goes out and does something crazy, that that gun shop owner should be held responsible? I don’t. On the other hand, where you have manufacturers and where you have gun shops knowingly giving guns to criminals or aiding and abetting that, of course we should take action.
COOPER: Secretary Clinton, is Bernie Sanders tough enough on guns?
CLINTON: No, not at all. I think that we have to look at the fact that we lose 90 people a day from gun violence. This has gone on too long and it’s time the entire country stood up against the NRA. The majority of our country...
(APPLAUSE) ... supports background checks, and even the majority of gun owners do. Senator Sanders did vote five times against the Brady bill. Since it was passed, more than 2 million prohibited purchases have been prevented. He also did vote, as he said, for this immunity provision. I voted against it. I was in the Senate at the same time. It wasn’t that complicated to me. It was pretty straightforward to me that he was going to give immunity to the only industry in America. Everybody else has to be accountable, but not the gun manufacturers. And we need to stand up and say: Enough of that. We’re not going to let it continue.
(APPLAUSE)
Full transcript here >>>>

President and Secretary Clinton: On the Passing of Julian Bond

Sunday

Aug 16

2015

Statement from President Clinton and Secretary Clinton on the Passing of Julian Bond

Statement

Hillary and I were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Julian Bond, and our hearts go out to Pamela and his children. Julian lived his life at the center of the fight for civil rights, equality, and justice. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Poverty Law Center, member of the Georgia Legislature, Chairman of the NAACP, and as a professor, Julian lived by and advanced the ideals that led him to the civil rights movement as a young man.
I treasured every conversation I've had over several decades and marveled that as his hair turned grey, his brilliant mind, sharp wit, and gifts of speech retained their youthful vitality and intensity.
Julian helped us to become a more perfect union and always pushed us to do better. We will miss him.

From NYT

U.S.

Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75

By ROY REEDAUG. 16, 2015

Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He was 75.

He died after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement Sunday morning.

Mr. Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was the committee’s communications director for five years and deftly guided the national news media toward stories of violence and discrimination as the committee challenged legal segregation in the South’s public facilities.

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Hillary Clinton at Book Signing on Martha's Vineyard

Hillary held a Hard Choices signing today at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.

Hillary Clinton's Interview in 'The Atlantic'

To his credit, Jeffrey Goldberg shares the entire transcript of his interview with Hillary in The Atlantic.  I urge readers to read the entire text, but if you have time to read only part, read the transcript rather than Goldberg's out-of-context interpretation and summary.  I read the text in order and on some topics her words took on a very different meaning in the full interview than they appeared to mean in Goldberg's opinion.

One statement I will make definitively and that is that Hillary has not in this interview made any of the judgmental statements about the current administration that are being attributed to her by the viral 'spin-off' articles this interview has spawned.  This epidemiology is nothing new and is so common that I simply have given up arguing with the people who write those shallow articles and who clearly have poor reading comprehension skills.

So here is the interview, preceded by Goldberg's take on her words.

Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS

The former secretary of state, and probable candidate for president, outlines her foreign-policy doctrine. She says this about President Obama's: "Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle."

Jeffrey Goldberg Aug 10 2014

JG: You go out of your way in Hard Choices to praise Robert Ford, who recently quit as U.S. ambassador to Syria, as an excellent diplomat. Ford quit in protest and has recently written strongly about what he sees as the inadequacies of Obama administration policy. Do you agree with Ford that we are at fault for not doing enough to build up a credible Syrian opposition when we could have?

HRC: I have the highest regard for Robert. I’m the one who convinced the administration to send an ambassador to Syria. You know, this is why I called the chapter on Syria “A Wicked Problem.” I can’t sit here today and say that if we had done what I recommended, and what Robert Ford recommended, that we’d be in a demonstrably different place.

Read more>>>>

The exchange above demonstrates what I was talking about.  One thing you will never catch Hillary Clinton doing is second-guessing in the subjunctive.

Secretary Clinton’s Interview With Jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic

May 10, 2011 by still4hill |

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Career Advice from Hillary Clinton: Glamour Magazine Excerpt

The September issue of Glamour will run a feature article about Hillary.  Here is an exceprt from her interview with Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive.

Career Advice from Hillary Rodham Clinton: "You Don't Have to Be Perfect. Most Men Never Think Like That."

by Cindi Leive

She's been leaning in for four decades—but now, in between a major book tour and a possible history-making presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting her feet up and offering "hard-earned" career lessons she says all young women should know. Below, read an excerpt of Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive's interview with her from Glamour's September issue.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has been many things. You know the list: a lawyer, our First Lady, a senator, a presidential candidate, a pantsuit icon, a political lightning rod (remember health care in the 1990s?), the "most admired woman" in America (for the twelfth year running, according to Gallup), and, most recently, the most traveled secretary of state in American history, visiting 112 countries in that job and doing everything from fighting for human rights in Burma to facing criticism for the attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya.

But right now, without a government gig for the first time in over three decades, what she seems most like is a woman in between. Behind her is a high-octane book tour for her new memoir, Hard Choices (not without its speed bumps; her remark to ABC's Diane Sawyer that she and her family were "dead broke" when they left the White House provoked skepticism, and she later acknowledged she could have discussed the subject in a more "artful" way). Ahead of her is a choice about whether to run for president once again, after the 2008 race that won her 18 million votes, exponentially more than any female candidate before her. "Toward the end of the year, beginning of next year, I'll have to make a decision," the Secretary told Glamour. (On The Daily Show, she gamely filled out a career aptitude checklist to help her decide: "Do you like a home office?" Jon Stewart asked. Yes, she said, she did.)

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Hillary Clinton’s 'Hard Choices' Retrospective Part Two: Across the Pacific Chapter 3 Asia: The Pivot

Here are the chapter 3 events that I have on record in the order in which Hillary mentions them in Hard Choices.
 
Early in chapter 3, Hillary refers to an essay published in Foreign Policy Magazine.   In it she summarizes the rationale behind the policy the Obama administration called the "Asia Pivot."

Hillary Rodham Clinton Op-Ed: America’s Pacific Century

October 11, 2011 by still4hill |

In Hard Choices, she asserts that the decision to begin her 112 country pilgrimage as secretary of state in Asia was hers.  She points to her February 2009 speech at the Asia Society in New York as her launch site for this grand pivot and her charter journey.

Hillary Clinton at the Asia Society in New York

February 13, 2009 by still4hill |
She landed first in Japan - dramatically and in breathtaking style!  Her remarks upon arrival are at the link below.

Hillary Clinton: Wheels Down Tokyo

February 17, 2009 by still4hill |

She comments on how pleased she was that the Japanese Special Olympics Team greeted her.

The Town Hall at Tokyo University she refers to was her first enormous encounter with civil society on foreign soil as secretary of state.   There would be many more over the years.

Hillary Clinton’s Town Hall at Tokyo University

February 18, 2009 by still4hill |

Her next university town hall was at Ewha Women's University -the largest women's university in the world!  I had graduate students who were Ewha alums.  They were surprised I knew about it, but of course I learned about it from Hillary!  When I told them that they were thrilled that she had been at their alma mater.

Hillary Clinton’s Town Hall at EWHA Women’s University

February 21, 2009 by still4hill |

In Indonesia, she appeared on a morning show called The Awesome Show.  She refers to it as being something like MTV.

Hillary Clinton’s TV Interview in Indonesia

February 20, 2009 by still4hill |

Also in  Indonesia, in a much more sedate setting, she stopped at ASEAN headquarters where Dr. Surin Pitsuman greeted her with yellow roses noting that they are the symbol of hope and new beginnings.

Hillary Clinton With ASEAN Secretary General Dr. Surin Pitsuwan

February 20, 2009 by still4hill |

In this chapter, Hillary describes how Euna Lee and Laura Ling,  journalists from Al Gore's Current TV, were arrested for accidentally crossing an unmarked border between China and North Korea.  Several potential rescuers were suggested, but Bill Clinton was the knight-in-shining-armor of choice.

WJC and HRC left Andrews AFB the same day and at about the same time (they arrived together, of course),  he on his rescue mission,  she on her first official State Department visit to Africa.  In a Vogue article published in December 2009, Jonathan Van Meter described consternation among her press corps that Bill was stealing Hillary's limelight.  But Hillary, of course,  was the one who had provided the approval for the former POTUS to embark on that mission.
Upon its success, she commented from Kenya.

Hillary Clinton’s Statement on Bill Clinton’s Rescue of Laura Ling and Euna Lee

August 5, 2009 by still4hill |

The chapter continues in a somber tone on the topic of North Korea as Hillary recalls her visit with Defense Secretary Robert Gates to the DMZ  in 2010 and a rather disconcerting moment in the negotiation room - precisely on the dividing line of the 38th parallel - when a North Korean Guard peered through a window.

Slideshow: Secretaries Clinton and Gates in Korea

July 21, 2010 by still4hill

In July 2009 on her first official trip as SOS to India, she states that she choose to stay at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel that had been subject to a terrorist bombing in November 2008.  Here are her remarks (video) upon arrival at the hotel.

Hillary Clinton at Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

July 19, 2009 by still4hill |

In reference to a 2012 visit to Laos, she calls that country "the most heavily bombed country in the world."  Many remember Nixon and the "incursions."  Those who view Obama as the "worst president since ____________ " (fill in the blank) would do well to remember those incursions - or read about them.

Hillary Clinton Makes History … AGAIN! First SOS in 57 Years to Visit Laos

July 11, 2012 by still4hill

 

If you would like to know what Hillary was saying about democracy on her July 2012 visit to Mongolia, go here!

Hillary Clinton at the Community of Democracies Governing Council in Mongolia

July 9, 2012 by still4hill |

End of chapter 3.

Hillary Clinton’s 'Hard Choices' Retrospective: Introduction

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Hillary Clinton's Hard Choices Signing in Huntington: Are YOU in the Picture?

If you were at this signing event at Book Revue in Huntington NY on Tuesday, there is a good possibility that you can find your picture with Hillary here!  Rob Rich snapped an extraordinary number of great pictures at this event.

The slideshow begins here >>>>

Hillary Clinton’s 'Hard Choices' Retrospective Part One A Fresh Start Chapter 1: A Fresh Start and Chapter 2: Foggy Bottom: Smart Power

In the first two chapters, Team of Rivals and Foggy Bottom, Hillary walks us through some of the 2008 primary season and her acceptance of the secretary of state post, with some of the staffing and policy decisions involved, and, finally, through her formal swearing in.

Those who were passionate supporters in 2008, especially PUMAs , are sure to suffer some sad and angry memories reading chapter one.  The nearest emotion I can confer to it is grief.  Many of us went through a process very close to if not exactly the stages of grief.  I am pretty expert in that field having lost both parents and almost all of my aunts and uncles over a period of about seven years from 1995 - 2002.  Grief was not a stranger to me, and that is how I felt about much of what Hillary recounts in chapter one.

Those who were part of the Women's Liberation Movement felt kicked in the stomach back to the Stone Age.  Where had all that misogyny come from?  Hillary does not directly confront it, but that might be because she, among all of us, was the one who was least surprised.

Chapter one is filled with memories that stick like an arrow in the gut.  She says she 'lost' the nomination, but we all knew she had done phenomenally well and had the convention respected  ... well,  convention, we might have seen a more traditional (and to us a fairer) nomination process.
Many here were among those who exhorted her to let us have a traditional roll call on the convention floor, but she went in another direction.

She explains her rationale in the book, just as she did at the time.  Anyone who knows anything about her would understand why she did what she did.  Many of us who love her still had a hard time accepting it, but then, those very reasons are part of why we love her.

In Part One she takes us through her suspension speech.

Hillary Clinton Suspends Her Campaign – Tears Flow Copiously

June 8, 2008 by still4hill


She goes on to recount her shift from primary campaign mode to general election mode with the Unity, New Hampshire rally for Obama.

Hillary Clinton’s Unity New Hampshire Speech

June 28, 2008 by still4hill

She also provides a very personal account of what went into her landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention that year.   She was stunning that night.  Presidential.

Hillary Clinton Shines at the Convention

August 27, 2008 by still4hill

Many of us disagreed with her appearance on the convention floor to stop the roll call vote.  She acknowledges that and explains her reasons.  There is no mention of earlier votes at the hotels that morning, and perhaps she did not know about those when she walked onto the convention floor.  It is hard to say what she knew and to what degree she was simply following her own reasons.  I, for one, must simply take her at her word on this decision.

This is a chapter that, for diehard Hillary 2008 folks, is so hard to get through.  (If you click through to August 28 on the links above, you see how well I took that roll call vote and how some delegates chimed in.)

Hillary goes on in this section to describe her dilemma at being asked to accept the post of secretary of state.  She recounts her personal deliberations and decision-making process.  Having decided, she moves on to the preparations. They involved heavy briefings and  a good deal of policy formation much of which rested on foundations formed from Senate and White House experience.

She recalls her confirmation hearing in subdued tones except for the preparation and her great team that she praises, but it was a phenomenon.  It lasted nearly as long as three dissertation defenses might,  and she was on task. on topic, and on fire the whole time.

Hillary Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 01.13.09

January 13, 2009 by still4hill

Known adversary, Chris Matthews,  said he had never seen anybody know so much for so long.  She blew everyone away as we always knew she could and would.

The Hillary Show: The reviews are in

January 15, 2009 by still4hill |

A good deal of the Foggy Bottom chapter (2) treats decisions about staffing.  Hillary explains her decision to recruit special envoys for high-risk regions  - a rationale most of us rational folks understood and thought reasonable - in fact brilliant.  She explains how primary contentions gave way to team goals, and how broken fences were mended.  It reminded me of this.

MENDING WALL

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

(Frost read a poem at JFK's inauguration and my heart broke when the sun and wind were so strong that his papers blew and he had trouble seeing the pages.  I was a kid, and I loved him, so I cried. But that's beside the point.)

If there were walls, Hillary set them well.  She made her conditions for accepting the job clear, and President Obama complied.   When she arrived at Foggy Bottom she was greeted liked a rock star.
First she was sworn in privately, as she says.

Hillary Clinton Sworn-In Privately as 67th Secretary of State

January 21, 2009 by still4hill

Her arrival at C Street was jubilant!

Hillary Rodham Clinton: Arrival at the Department of State

January 22, 2009 by still4hill

After her arrival there was the ceremonial swearing in, and then she was on her skateboard and off to the far corners of the earth as our top diplomat!

Hillary Clinton’s Ceremonial Swearing-In

February 2, 2009 by still4hill

End of Part One.


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Hillary Clinton’s 'Hard Choices' Retrospective: Introduction

August 7, 2014 by still4hill |