Previewing Hillary's speech tomorrow
Posted: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 2:48 PM by Mark Murray
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From NBC's Libby Leist
Hillary Clinton has remained largely out of public view over the past month as she nurses her broken elbow, but tomorrow she will re-emerge with a highly anticipated foreign policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in DC.
Clinton's spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters today that the Secretary of State plans to outline "her vision" of U.S. foreign policy, as well as how the State Department plans to carry out the overall Obama foreign policy agenda.
Kelly described the speech as having a "global perspective" that will "mostly be forward looking." She is expected to hit on all the world's hot spots -- "the whole gamut," he said.
A senior State Department official says the speech has been in the works for about six weeks, and Clinton aides have long wanted to do a speech to mark the first six months of her term as Secretary of State.
"Now that most of her team is in place, it's time for us to look forward and sort of lay out the big picture for our implementing the administration's foreign policy," the official said.
The official scoffed at the suggestion that Clinton feels sidelined in the Obama administration, and that she feels the need to reassert herself. "That's just ridiculous," the official laughed.
Clinton will follow up her speech by heading overseas for a week-long trip to India and Thailand, her first trip since breaking her elbow last month.
