Hillary’s SecState Profile to Grow With Major Foreign Policy Speech
By Bronwyn's Harbor on July 9, 2009 at 6:01 PM in Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Laura Rozen is a respected reporter on foreign policy and national security matters, and her blog, War and Piece, is a daily must-read. Rozen wrote an important section of Valerie Plame Wilson’s book — Fair Game: How a Top CIA Agent Was Betrayed by Her Own Government — on Valerie’s work for the CIA that the CIA restricted Valerie from writing about herself.
Today, Foreign Policy magazine has published Rozen’s fascinating in-depth article on the heightened visibility and upcoming speeches, trips and activities of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Rozen’s Foreign Policy article is titled, “With foreign-policy speech, Clinton plans to raise her profile.”
We hope to explore this article in additional stories by our writers here at No Quarter. This post is intended solely as an introduction — to tip you to this must-read. Here’s a brief snippet of the opening section of the article:
After missing two overseas trips due to surgery to repair a broken elbow, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a major foreign-policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington next week before departing for India and the ASEAN conference in Thailand on Friday, July 17, aides say.
Guiding the speech are Anne-Marie Slaughter, the director of the State Department’s policy planning office, and Derek Chollet, her deputy, among others. In a “smart power” oriented address, Clinton plans to discuss ways the United States can promote nuclear nonproliferation, combat violent extremism, and improve food security, along with other themes. “She will highlight the … goals of U.S. policy (not her goals — the country’s),” one official familiar with the preparations stressed on condition of anonymity.
But Clinton’s planned speech is clearly meant to raise her own profile as well. …
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