Clinton heads for Hawaii!
Secretary Clinton departed for her Pacific trip today. Her first stop is Hawaii, where she’s supposed to meet the Japanese foreign minister to discuss the United States’ controversial Futenma air base on Okinawa. She’ll also give give a speech on Asia-Pacific multilateral engagement and meet with U.S. Pacific Command before heading off to Papua New ...
Secretary Clinton departed for her Pacific trip today. Her first stop is Hawaii, where she's supposed to meet the Japanese foreign minister to discuss the United States' controversial Futenma air base on Okinawa. She'll also give give a speech on Asia-Pacific multilateral engagement and meet with U.S. Pacific Command before heading off to Papua New Guinea for the next leg of her trip.
Secretary Clinton departed for her Pacific trip today. Her first stop is Hawaii, where she’s supposed to meet the Japanese foreign minister to discuss the United States’ controversial Futenma air base on Okinawa. She’ll also give give a speech on Asia-Pacific multilateral engagement and meet with U.S. Pacific Command before heading off to Papua New Guinea for the next leg of her trip.
In the photo above, Clinton gets out of her vehicle this morning before boarding her plane at Andrews Air Force Base. As you can see, her hands are already stuffed with foreign-policy memos that she will diligently study during her flight so that when she lands she’ll be fully informed with the latest information. As Tina Brown wrote on the Daily Beast last summer:
On her State Department plane, Hillary is always eager to throw off her well-groomed public look and sit up front with no makeup, wearing sweats and her bookworm glasses, as she crunches her way through a big fat file of foreign-policy memos."
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