by Kim Ghattas
Kim Jong Il
Kim Sung-Hwan
Kipling, Rudyard
Kissinger, Henry
Klein, Ezra
Klein, Joe
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Korean War
Kurds
Kusa, Musa
Kuwait
Iraqi invasion (1990)
Kwan, Michelle
Kyrgyzstan
HRC visits
Labott, Elise
Landler, Mark
Lavrov, Sergei
Lebanon
American power and
Arab Spring and
Blue Bat and (1958)
Christmas 2010 in
civil war (1975–1990)
crisis of 2011 and
Hariri assassination and uprising (2005)
Hezbollah and
hostage crisis
HRC visits
Iran and
Israel and
Israeli invasion of (1982)
Syria and
Syrian invasion of (1990)
Turkey and
violence of 2008
U.S. Marine bombing (1983)
Lee, Matthew
Lee Myung-bak
Lempert, Yael
Libya
Egypt war vs. (1969)
France and
HRC visits
NATO bombing of
Russia and
Syria vs.
UN resolution on
uprising in
WikiLeaks and
Libyan Transitional National Council
Lieberman, Avigdor
Likud Party (Israel)
Liu Xiaobo
Living History (Clinton)
Livini, Tzipi
Lukens, Lew
Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio
Madrid peace conference (1991)
Maehara, Seiji
Mahfouz, Asmaa
Makhlouf, Rami
Malaysia
Maliki, Nouri al-
Manas Air Base
Mandelbaum, Michael
Manning, Bradley
Mao Zedong
Marshall, George
Matsumoto, Takeaki
McDonough, Denis
Mecca, siege of (1979)
Medvedev, Dmitry
Meehan, Bernadette
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Merkel, Angela
Merrill, Nick
Mexico
Michiko, empress of Japan
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Mills, Cheryl
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Mitchell, George
Mizer, Brian
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Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran
Montgomery, Molly
Morocco
HRC visits
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Moussa, Amr
Mubarak, Gamal
Mubarak, Hosni
Mubarak, Suzanne
Muhammad, Prophet
Mullen, Mike
multilateralism
Mumbai attacks (2008)
Murhoni, Abdullah al-
Muscatine, Lissa
Musharraf, Pervez
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My American Journey (Powell)
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Narain, Paul
Nasr, Vali
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National Security Council (NSC)
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Nation (Pakistani newspaper)
Nazif, Ahmed
Nepal
Netanyahu, Benjamin “Bibi”
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New York Post
New York Times
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Niles, David
Nixon, Richard M.
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China and
HRC visits border of
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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
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Pakistan and
Nuland, Victoria
Nye, Joseph
Obama, Barack
Afghanistan and
American power and
Arab Spring and
Asia and
Brazil and
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early administration of
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election of 2008 and
Guantánamo Bay and
health reform and
Indonesia and
Iran and
Iraq and
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and
Japan and
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Middle East and
midterm problems of
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State of the Union Address (2012)
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Olson, Kurt
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Afghanistan and
aid to
bin Laden and
China and
Davis arrest in
history of
Holbrooke and
HRC visits
India and
U.S. embassy attacks in
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aid to
FDR and
partition and
Palestinian state
Palin, Sarah
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Panetta, Leon
Paracel Islands
Pasha, Ahmad Shuja
Pearl, Daniel
Pentagon Papers
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Petraeus, David
Philippines
Pitsuwan, Surin
PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party, Turkey)
Portugal
Powell, Colin
Power, Samantha
Qatar
Qom nuclear facility
Rabin, Yitzhak
Raddatz, Martha
Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
Reagan, Ronald
Reines, Philippe
Republican Party
Reuters
Rhee, Syngman
Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Rice, Condoleezza
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Egypt and
HRC and
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leadership style of
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Rice, Susan
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rudd, Kevin
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rusk, Dean
&nbs
p; 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
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Obama and
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Syria and
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women and
Schwerin, Dan
Scowcroft, Brent
Scranton, Mary
Secret Service
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Sharm el-Sheikh summit (2003)
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Sinclair, Stephanie
SIPRNet
Slaughter, Anne-Marie
Somalia conference (London, 2012)
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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)
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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
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town halls
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Yemen
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Truman, Harry S.
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Tunisia
HRC visits
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Turkey
HRC visits
Iran and
Iraq and
Libya and
Syria and
WikiLeaks and
Yemen and
Tutwiler, Margaret
Twitter
United Arab Emirates
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HRC visits
Libya and
Syria and
United Kingdom. See Britain
United Nations
UN conference on women (Beijing, 1995)
UN General Assembly
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UN panel on climate change
UN Security Council
Iran and
Libya and
North Korea and
Syria and
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
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U.S. Congress
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Egypt and
Libya and
U.S. Fifth Fleet
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Lebanon and
U.S. Navy
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U.S. Senate
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HRC visits
Vietnam
HRC visits
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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
KIM GHATTAS 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
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