The Secretary (60 page)

Qatar

Qom nuclear facility

Rabin, Yitzhak

Raddatz, Martha

Rasmussen, Anders Fogh

Reagan, Ronald

Reines, Philippe

Republican Party

Reuters

Rhee, Syngman

Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Rice, Condoleezza

China and

Egypt and

HRC and

Israeli-Palestinian conflict and

leadership style of

Pakistan and

Rice, Susan

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Rudd, Kevin

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rusk, Dean

Russia.
See also
Soviet Union

China and

Georgia and

Iran and

Libya and

North Korea and

Syria and

WikiLeaks and

Saakashvili, Mikheil

Saleh, Ali Abdullah

Sarkozy, Nicolas

Saud al-Faisal, Prince

Saudi Arabia

Arab Spring and

Bahrain and

China and

Egypt and

FDR and

Grand Mosque seizure (1979)

HRC visits

Iran and

Iraq and

Israel and

Lebanon and

Libya and

Obama and

“oil-for-arms” and

Palestinians and

Sunni-Shiite rivalry and

Syria and

WikiLeaks and

women and

Schwerin, Dan

Scowcroft, Brent

Scranton, Mary

Secret Service

September 11, 2001, attacks

Serbia

Shanghai World Expo (2010)

Sharm el-Sheikh summit (2003)

Shiite Muslims

Sinclair, Stephanie

SIPRNet

Slaughter, Anne-Marie

Somalia conference (London, 2012)

South Africa

South China Sea

South Korea (Republic of Korea, ROK)

Cheonan
sinking and

China and

HRC visits

WikiLeaks and

Soviet Union.
See also
Russia;
and other former republics

Afghanistan war (1979–89)

breakup of

Spain

Spratly Islands

Stalin, Joseph

State Department.
See also
Clinton, Hillary Rodham;
and specific countries and individuals

career officers at

Diplomatic Security (DS)

elections of 2010 and

Executive Secretariat

funding of

HRC’s first days at

Near Eastern Affairs bureau

Operations Center (OPS)

press briefings and

social media and

WikiLeaks and

Steinberg, Jim

Stevens, Chris

Strasbourg summit (2009)

Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED, China-U.S.)

Sudan

Suleiman, Omar

Sullivan, Jake

Sunni Muslims

Sun Tzu

Syria

Baath coup (1963)

China and

Egypt and

Hezbollah and

Iran and

Jews leave

Lebanon and

Libya and

Madrid conference and

Palestine and

Russia and

Saudi Arabia and

Tunisia conference on (2012)

Turkey and

uprising in

Syrian Local Coordination Committees (LHRC)

Syrian National Council (SNC)

Taiwan

Taliban

Tantawi, Mohamed

Taseer, Aamna

Taseer, Salman

Taseer, Shahbaz

Taseer, Shehrbano

Tea Party

Tehran summit (2010)

Thailand

Than Shwe

Thein Sein

Tibet

Time

town halls

Iraq

Pakistan

Saudi Arabia

South Korea

UAE

Yemen

Treat of Amity and Cooperation (TAC)

Truman, Harry S.

Tueni, Gebran

Tunisia

HRC visits

uprising in

Turkey

HRC visits

Iran and

Iraq and

Libya and

Syria and

WikiLeaks and

Yemen and

Tutwiler, Margaret

Twitter

United Arab Emirates

Bahrain and

HRC visits

Libya and

Syria and

United Kingdom.
See
Britain

United Nations

UN conference on women (Beijing, 1995)

UN General Assembly

UN Human Rights Council

UN panel on climate change

UN Security Council

Iran and

Libya and

North Korea and

Syria and

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

U.S. Air Force Security Forces

U.S. Congress

U.S. embassies

Egypt and

Libya and

U.S. Fifth Fleet

U.S. Marine Corps

Lebanon and

U.S. Navy

SEALs

U.S. Senate

Uzbekistan

HRC visits

Vietnam

HRC visits

Vietnam War

Walsh, Declan

Wang Qishan

Washington Post

Wen Jiabao

West Bank

Westerwelle, Guido

WikiLeaks

Wisner, Frank

women’s rights

World War I

World War II

Yang Jiechi

Yehl, Ashley

Yemen

HRC visits

war of 1994

WikiLeaks and

YouTube

Zakaria, Fareed

Zambia

Zardari, Asif Ali

Zayed, Abdullah bin

Zhou Yongkang

Zia-ul-Haq

Zimbabwe

Zionism

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

K
IM
G
HATTAS
has been the BBC’s State Department radio and TV correspondent since 2008. She traveled
three hundred thousand miles around the world with Hillary Clinton and interviewed
her more than fifteen times. Ghattas was previously a Middle East correspondent for
the BBC and the
Financial Times
, based in Beirut. She was part of an Emmy Award–winning BBC team covering the Lebanon-Israel
conflict in 2006. Her work has also appeared in
Time
magazine, the
Boston Globe
, and the
Washington Post
and on NPR radio. Ghattas was born and raised in Beirut during the Lebanese civil
war. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ghattas, Kim.

    
The secretary: a journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American
power / Kim Ghattas.—First edition.

            
pages cm

    
Includes bibliographical references and index.

    
ISBN 978-0-8050-9511-1

 
1.  Clinton, Hillary Rodham.   2.  United States—Foreign relations—2009–   3.  Cabinet
officers—United States—Biography.   4.  Women cabinet officers—United States—Biography.  
I.  Title.

    
E887.C55G53 2013

    
327.730092—dc23

    
[B]                                                                     2012043835

First Edition 2013

eISBN 978-0-8050-9833-4