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Breeze54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-01-08 12:34 AM
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13. She traveled to 79 countries in total while in the WH.
The Résumé Factor: Those 2 Terms as First Lady

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/us/politics/26clinton.html

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As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Uzbekistan in 1997 and was met by President Islam A. Karimov.

The Long Run
The White House Years

This is part of a series of articles about the life and careers of contenders for the 2008 Republican and Democratic presidential nominations.

Stanislav Peska/Associated Press

At a cafe in downtown Prague in 1998, the first lady met with the Czech president, Vaclav Havel, left.

But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.

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