Clinton to meet up with Laura Bush tonight

Secretary Clinton will be meeting up with former first lady Laura Bush tonight at 7 p.m. at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington. A reception there will honor Bush’s just-released memoir Spoken from the Heart, which the Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus reviewed on Sunday. (In 2003, Clinton’s autobiography Living History came out.) (In the photo above, ...

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Secretary Clinton will be meeting up with former first lady Laura Bush tonight at 7 p.m. at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington. A reception there will honor Bush's just-released memoir Spoken from the Heart, which the Washington Post's Ruth Marcus reviewed on Sunday. (In 2003, Clinton's autobiography Living History came out.)

Secretary Clinton will be meeting up with former first lady Laura Bush tonight at 7 p.m. at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Washington. A reception there will honor Bush’s just-released memoir Spoken from the Heart, which the Washington Post‘s Ruth Marcus reviewed on Sunday. (In 2003, Clinton’s autobiography Living History came out.)

(In the photo above, then-Senator Clinton and then-first lady Bush share a laugh on Oct. 31, 2007.)

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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