Hillary, wind beneath Obama’s foreign relations wing

Days before Hillary Clinton, once-presidential candidate and former First Lady, steps down as US Secretary of State, series of assessments of her contributions are flooding in. One was by Michael O’Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, who wrote a glowing one in his Reuters blog. He wrote: “She understood that she was a part of Obama’s administration, not a co-president. Where Obama had strong views or made overall decisions on the nation’s priorities, she did not complain, leak countervailing views, wind up in publicized spats or even allow any space to emerge between them.” He added: “She is more work horse than show horse, more an indefatigable marathoner (despite the setback last month) than a sprinter.” Clinton will appear before the US lawmakers on January 23 to be quizzed about the deadly attack on a US mission in Libya.

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