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Wed May 14, 2014, 05:57 PM May 2014

"Hillary Clinton defends her ‘hard choices’ at State Department"

Hillary Clinton defends her ‘hard choices’ at State Department

By Philip Rucker at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/14/hillary-clinton-defends-her-hard-choices-at-state-department/

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Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a robust defense of her four years as secretary of state on Wednesday, saying she worked tirelessly to slow Iran's nuclear development and to lay the groundwork for lasting peace in the Middle East.

During a speech before a pro-Israel gathering in Washington, the potential 2016 presidential candidate repeatedly invoked the title of her forthcoming memoir, "Hard Choices," to describe her service in President Obama's administration.

On Iran, Clinton said, "President Obama and I knew we had a hard choice: Keep reading from the same playbook -- politically safe but practically unsustainable -- or tear up the old playbook and devise a new strategy."

In her remarks to the American Jewish Committee's Global Forum, Clinton detailed her arm-twisting diplomacy to round up enough votes at the United Nations Security Council to impose tougher sanctions on Iran. It was "my personal mission" to convince allies in Europe and Asia to cut exports from Iran so the regime would suffer an economic blow, she said.



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