Last week, former United States Senator and Secretaryof State Hillary Clinton launched a publicity campaign in support of her newbook. The book is called “Hard Choices.” Political observers and reporters sayit appears to be tied to a possible campaign for the presidency. The wife offormer President Bill Clinton has not yet said whether she will be a candidatein the 2016 presidential elections.
Anne Gearan is a reporter at the Washington Post newspaper. She has beenfollowing Hillary Clinton since the 1990s. And she has read the new book.
“The book is, it sort of leaves off with a very tantalizing comment aboutwhether she would or wouldn’t run and says ‘I haven’t decided yet.’ So it kindof leaves you hanging.”
In Hard Choices, Ms. Clinton talks about her decisions as secretary of state. She also discusses her efforts to slow the growth of poverty and working insupport of women’s rights.
Ranjita de Silva de Alwis directs the Women in Public Service Project. Ms.Clinton, and several women’s colleges, launched the project in 2011.
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Hillary Clinton speaks during a book signing of her new book "Hard Choices" in New York June 10, 2014. |
“Secretary Clinton has put in a lot of effort to, for us to amplify women’s voicesaround the world. Women galvanize around her leadership. She’s not seenjust as a woman who belongs to the United States, she belongs to the world, and wherever we go women say ‘she’s one of us.’”
Anne Gearan says the book tour will give Ms. Clinton’s opponents the chanceto weaken her politically.
“Anything Hilary Clinton says or does from now until the moment sheannounces will be, you know, in some way countered by Republicans trying toknock a couple holes in the person they see as not only the most likelycandidate but also the strongest of, of the potential field of Democrats.”
