Happy one year as secretary of state!

Today is the one-year anniversary of when Secretary Clinton had her swearing-in ceremony (as seen in the photo above from Feb. 2, 2009), though she officially began her secretary-of-state post on Jan. 21, 2009. Over at the website of Tavis Smiley Reports, the PBS show which featured Clinton last week, there’s a great photo timeline ...

By , copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009.
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Today is the one-year anniversary of when Secretary Clinton had her swearing-in ceremony (as seen in the photo above from Feb. 2, 2009), though she officially began her secretary-of-state post on Jan. 21, 2009. Over at the website of Tavis Smiley Reports, the PBS show which featured Clinton last week, there's a great photo timeline of her first year as America's top diplomat. Check it out here.

Today is the one-year anniversary of when Secretary Clinton had her swearing-in ceremony (as seen in the photo above from Feb. 2, 2009), though she officially began her secretary-of-state post on Jan. 21, 2009. Over at the website of Tavis Smiley Reports, the PBS show which featured Clinton last week, there’s a great photo timeline of her first year as America’s top diplomat. Check it out here.

 

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

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