Hillary Clinton is not ‘calculating’ or risk-averse. (Hillary Group)

[msrizzo]

Not sure if this has been shared yet, but it's a pretty great first person account of Hillary's speech in 1995.

As our plane descended into Beijing in the middle of a late summer night in 1995, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton was waiting to see the final version of the next day’s speech. She had been invited by the United Nations secretary general to deliver the keynote address to the U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women. As her speechwriter at the time, I raced to make last-minute edits before we landed. When I finished, I handed her the draft. She looked at me and said, “I just want to push the envelope as far as I can on women’s rights and human rights.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/25/hillary-clinton-is-not-calculating-or-risk-averse-i-watched-her-take-a-huge-gamble-and-it-paid-off/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=20150903beijing20

[Gothmog]

1. Great article

Thanks for posting

[DURHAM D]

2. Excellent article.

It was a very big deal.

At the time I had a friend working at the State Department and she talked about how furious Warren Christopher was about Hillary even being allowed to go to China. He saved most of his anger for Bill because he though he could not control his wife. What an ass.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. So sorry, I just noticed I missed your post of this article and posted it again. I try to check...

before I post, and if I find a previous post, just give it a K&R!

[msrizzo]

4. No worries.

Good news can't be posted enough if you ask me!

[cosmicone]

5. I loved the article!