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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Would you rank Hillary Clinton as one of the best Secretaries of State of all time? [View all]lunatica
(53,410 posts)9. The Secretary of State's only agenda is to speak for the President
It wasn't her agenda. She did her job exceptionally well in a very dangerous world.
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