Bill stealing some of Hillary’s spotlight this week

Hillary Clinton, Car Bildt, Sept. 22, 2009 | JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images   Secretary Clinton is having a busy week at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Above, she speaks with the much taller Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt upon their arrival for a meeting with EU foreign ministers at the Waldorf Astoria hotel. Another Clinton, ...

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Hillary Clinton, Car Bildt, Sept. 22, 2009 | JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

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Secretary Clinton is having a busy week at the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Above, she speaks with the much taller Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt upon their arrival for a meeting with EU foreign ministers at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

Another Clinton, however, seems to be getting a lot more attention this week — husband Bill. He’s hosting the fifth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which President Obama attend today. FP editor Josh Keating attended a “blogger roundtable” with Bill Clinton yesterday and will be blogging from the General Assembly all this week. (Check out Passport for his posts.)

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Sept. 22, 2009 | TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Sept. 22, 2009 | TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Photos, top to bottom: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images, TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009 to 2016 and was an FP assistant editor from 2007 to 2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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