The Secretary (56 page)

Clinton took her diplomacy to remote places, such as this women’s cooperative farm
in Tanzania, and made top government officials, including the country’s prime minister,
Mizengo Pinda, travel with her.
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The traveling press took occasional breaks from the drudgery to pose for pictures
in front of the secretary’s plane. On almost every trip, Clinton gave interviews to
the television reporters traveling with her—including the author. She often came to
the back of her plane to brief journalists en route to the next stop.
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The secretary’s plane was part of the bubble in which the delegation traveled for
days. Here Clinton gets off her plane in Dar es Salaam with security officers standing
guard. The Ravens watch over the plane twenty-four hours a day.
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Clinton and Turkey’s foreign minister Ahmet Davuto
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lu built a close relationship, part of the Obama administration’s approach to managing
the rise of other powers. This picture was taken during a diplomatic summit in Abu
Dhabi in July 2011 to discuss the NATO military campaign in Libya and the country’s
future. Some Arab papers said the two officials were celebrating the death of Libyans
but the high five was actually in honor of Davutoğlu’s newly born grandchild.
(AP)

Diplomatic action on Libya consumed much of the summer of 2011 and continued after
the fall of Tripoli in August. On September 1, Clinton walks to a meeting at the Elysée
Palace in Paris with Libya’s interim leaders Mustafa Abdul Jalil and Mahmoud Jibril
to her right and Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman
(at far left).
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Clinton travels to Tripoli in October 2011 on board a military plane; Jeffrey Feltman
is sitting directly behind her. The shot was turned into an Internet meme that went
viral. Clinton submitted her own meme, met the authors, and signed a picture for them
“Hilz.”
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Clinton is welcomed on the tarmac of Tripoli International Airport by a motley crew
of Libyan militiamen who had been part of the effort to topple Gaddafi and were all
eager to have their picture taken with her. A rare moment of thanks to America in
the Middle East and a moment of celebration before tragedy less than a year later.
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Clinton walks hand in hand with Khin Khin Win, wife of Burma’s president Thein Sein
(ahead of Clinton wearing glasses), in the cavernous gilded palace in Nay Pyi Taw.
Clinton was the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the isolated, repressive state
since the 1950s. Obama said he had seen “flickers of progress” in Burma and sent Clinton
to test the intentions of the country’s leaders in December 2011.
(AP)