An Uncommon Résumé in an Unusual Time
By HELENE COOPER
NYT
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks no foreign languages, but has visited 90 countries. She has never negotiated an agreement between two warring sides, but a speech she delivered in Beijing in 1995 is still quoted by women’s rights advocates around the world.
As President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton carries a résumé that is in many ways thinner than her predecessors. She does not bring the decades of academic and policy expertise that Condoleezza Rice brought to the job, nor does she have Colin L. Powell’s military know-how, or even Warren Christopher’s past experience as a deputy secretary of state.
Nor does she have James A. Baker III’s chummy relationship with her boss. Or the street credibility of a Madeleine K. Albright or Henry A. Kissinger, whose very birthplaces — Prague and Bavaria — gave them an aura of worldliness that added sheen to their diplomatic credentials.
And yet, Mrs. Clinton’s selection has electrified a diplomatic world where officials can now anticipate the prospect of sitting across a conference table from a former American first lady and presidential candidate, with all of the drama that is attached to the Clinton story.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks no foreign languages, but has visited 90 countries. She has never negotiated an agreement between two warring sides, but a speech she delivered in Beijing in 1995 is still quoted by women’s rights advocates around the world.
As President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton carries a résumé that is in many ways thinner than her predecessors. She does not bring the decades of academic and policy expertise that Condoleezza Rice brought to the job, nor does she have Colin L. Powell’s military know-how, or even Warren Christopher’s past experience as a deputy secretary of state.
Nor does she have James A. Baker III’s chummy relationship with her boss. Or the street credibility of a Madeleine K. Albright or Henry A. Kissinger, whose very birthplaces — Prague and Bavaria — gave them an aura of worldliness that added sheen to their diplomatic credentials.
And yet, Mrs. Clinton’s selection has electrified a diplomatic world where officials can now anticipate the prospect of sitting across a conference table from a former American first lady and presidential candidate, with all of the drama that is attached to the Clinton story.
(More here.)
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