Hillary: America's Diplomat in Chief Our World

She is one of the most recognised and respected women in the world up

to four years as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leaves the job with

70% approval rating at one million air miles. I am interested to see

if I can roll over and go to sleep or eat it so ingrained in me I will

wonder what I do? She has a loyal friends. She has a great capacity

as a human being on a day-to-day cents without distractions as

reality. She has critics. I don't think that Hillary Clinton has been

a very consequential Secretary of State. The President wanted to be

in control of foreign policy will stop in Republican quarters there

is grace. She has furthered This is the story of a remarkable

journey from first lady to the He will reap Clinton has been on

the world stage since Bill Clinton became the comeback Kid and she was

the first lady. On the campaign trail and the White House, she was

seen as an uncompromising, deeply polarising. I could have stayed

home and baked cookies but I decided to fulfil my profession

before my husband was in public life. Conservatives hated her and

she hated them back blaming a vast right-wing conspiracy or attacking

her husband's presidency. He said he suffered slings and arrows and

now you leave the Office and you are soaring in the polls, you have

retain the status of the school Secretary of State. Do you think

that you can allow new changed or can people see who you really are?

It's probably to some extent both. MAEV other factors getting out of

politics to serve a non-political position for example. I think that

I've learnt a lot in the last 20 or 30 years I hope and I want to keep

moving. Perhaps the hardest lesson came from a failed bid for the

White House. Back in 2008, she was the front runner for the Democratic

domination. Despite all her fame and respect she added as a senator,

she struggled to connect with the voters. The was a feeling within

the campaign by some of her advisers that she always had to

predict straight. She should not whatever. The President needed to

project straight. To assert extent, that worked against her. In

projecting string she was off- putting to some people. What can

you say to the voters of New Hampshire that hesitate on the lack

of an issue with a Either light Barack Obama mal? That hurts my

feelings. I am sorry. I will try to go on. This exchange laid bare the

tension between the candidates. is very likeable, I agree with that.

I'm not that bad. You are likeable enough, Hillary. Yet, when Senator

Obama won the nomination, rivals made peace and continues to the

popularity to campaign for him. This woman were to with her at the

White House and the State Department. At his bookshop I asked

her if her friend had ever shown any bitterness after losing the

nomination? Never, she is a professional, she's been in the

business are long time and has had up Sandown's in various areas of

the political life. I think she's one of those people that is

forward-thinking thinking what is next and works on the next positive

thing and will not dwell on past. Others may have crawled into bed

and pulled the covers over them but she was not like that. You have

been steeped in politics your whole life. Did you have imagine becoming

a diplomat? I never imagine that. There was nothing that I had ever

thought about. I had not before 1999 thought about running Office

but my life has been serendipitous I would say. I have had a

tremendously exciting opportunities to to expand my experience and to

serve, which is something I believe in deeply, but when President Obama

asked me to be his Secretary of State of stunned, I never thought

that would be a possibility. Clinton was given a rapturous

welcome at the State Department on her first day. Her predecessors had

also been greeted but this was like a feverish campaign stop. Good

afternoon. For Orange leaders flocked to her eager to shake hands

with her and there was much gushing. Madame Secretary, on a personal

note I hope you know that the admiration and respect you're held

within our kingdom. Four years on and that former Foreign Secretary

still remembers her debut. I will never forget the first NATO meeting

after I arrived before her and there was a few people there in the

entryway but when she arrived, there was literally thousands of

people craning to get a view of her and that is where I said she was a

rock star who came through strongly. When Hillary Clinton walked into

the building on her first day as Secretary of State she clearly was

a global figure. She had a contact list UN matched by her predecessors.

The real questions were, how was she going to work with a former

rival President Obama and more importantly, how was his new

administration owing to one do some of the damage done to the American

standing in the world? Be after the Bush years, with wars in

Afghanistan end at Guantanamo Bay, the American reputation around the

world had taken a battering. The Obama Administration want to change

the substance and the tone of American foreign policy and that's

where Hillary Clinton came in. But now we all take for granted it was

a pretty good idea to pick her. Go back to November 2008, it was

shocking. I were invite my team to say a few words. I will start my

dear friend Hillary Clinton. present knew what he was inheriting

with this person and he knew that the previous eight years was not

exactly a golden age of diplomacy. He knew she was the best person to

restore the American standing. Clinton embarked on a new campaign

for America. She wanted to reach out directly to people in all

countries she visited to help repair own country's image. He in

2009 when I took office, diplomacy was no longer only about

government-to-government relationships. That is not in any

way to diminish the importance of peace treaties and trade treaties,

they're just as important. But if we were going to take advantage of

new technology, social media, we had to do more to reach out to

public. Good evening from India. Thank you for being here with us

all stop I'd like to ask you, what it think of the most powerful

diplomatic tool? One thing I learnt in his job early is that the vast

majority of young people over the world predominantly a population in

the world of younger people under 35, eight don't have much knowledge

about the United States. The drone attacks are being carried out.

times they was hostility like in Pakistan which she visited in

October 2009. Be for that trip she said she did not want to resign

myself to giving up on trying to change people's minds. We said it

will not be pretty. She said, I Want You guys to load this up and I

want you to make me a punchbag. This a lot of frustration amongst

our people. Once you let people express their frustration, they

also realise it's OK to expression bid desires and their own goals for

their nation and how the United States plays a part in that. PR is

not enough on its own. When a NATO airstrike in November 2011 killed

24 Pakistani soldiers, Hillary Clinton pushed for months to

convince the White House to apologise. The country's Foreign

Minister says she helped bring US pet study relationships back from

the brink. He US was perceived to be a country that was perceived not

to be willing to care about the lives not withstanding the

circumstances. She completely understood that. In the US Senate,

John McCain saw how prepared she was to build unlikely alliances.

The former republican candidate still calls a friend. She has

established relationships with leaders in well over 100 missions

and she can pick up that phone at any time and they know that she

will speak for the American people and the President. There have been

on numerous occasions when she has turned what may have been a crisis

in two situation which was OK. Rover four use she criss-crossed

the globe visiting 112 countries, spent 2,000 hours on airplanes,

travelled over one million miles. That's almost 40 times around the

world. I'm half your age without a bulging my age. I feel the only

one-third distance and you have gone and I feel exhausted and how

did you do that? I'm lucky of always been healthy. I have great

stamina. For most of my life, so I did enjoy it and I enjoyed the

challenge of travel and the unique experiences that I had all over the

world. I'm lucky I can sleep on aeroplanes and I did so regularly.

It was a small cabin but it was enough for me to feel like I could

rest before I got off to start my work. For me, it was the challenge

and the excitement and the importance and responsibility they

got me up every day. I was never disorientated about where I was.

That did not affect me. There was no doubt that it was exhausting.

One critic of the ministrations as her ability to press the flesh made

it the perfect foil for the more aloof President Obama. You don't

seem to have enjoyed cuddling up to foreign leaders. Some presidents do

and some do not. He does not seem to like it. He left all that to her.

Trip after trip. Hour after how. She did it. Somebody had to do it.

Personal relationships are important and she has done it and I

think that's been actually a great service to the administration and

to the country. Her goal as Secretary of State was much grander

than have to. From the first day she set out how the administration

would redefine the exercise of American power and leadership.

much must used smart power, the full range of tools at our disposal,

diplomatic, economic, military, political legal and cultural. Pick

the right fool and combination of tools for each situation. She tried

to break down traditional barriers which in the State Department and

the Pentagon and travelled overseas with the Defence Secretary such as

in soccer career. Asia is where she says this Mark Power approach has

paid off most. We reassured hour are raised and we worked it create

conditions for an unprecedented historic achievement which is with

Chinese rise and avoiding conflict because historically it a rise in

power and an established power had not been able to negotiate.

Strategic and economic dialogues which I put into place and shed

with the Secretary gave us the habit of co-operation so when we

face a crisis such as the blind dissident, we were able to

accomplish that through very intensive negotiations in a way

that was not in keeping with our 18 arrests activists took shelter

in a US embassy in China. -- a human rights activist. I made the

decision quickly. It was based on the information I had been given.

And did not see how we could turn away someone who was seeking

medical treatment and Safety at our embassy. It would have fallen

efface of what I think we are. you are a superpower Q always

dealing with more double crisis at the same time. The smart power

approach was put to the test by events. In this war weary nation,

was a military option still an option? If it wasn't, did mean that

American power was on the wane? In the early 2011, years of pent-up

anger and frustration erupted across north Africa and the Middle

east. Clinton had just warned Arab League is that the region was

sinking. Should not that much she did not expect revolution and war.

Our expectation is that the Egyptian government is stable.

Within three weeks, President Mubarak was gone. The US had lost a

long-time ally. Clinton headed to Cairo as the US scrambled to keep

up with changes. They re- wrote foreign policy for a new Arab world.

As the uprisings bread, from Libya to Syria and Bahrain, Washington

protected American interests. administration was slow on Mubarak.

She was slow to realise that President Assad was a butcher. In

Olivia we were slow. Then be pulled out some aircraft, leaving the

French and British there. -- inner -- in Lybia. No-one understood what

an earthquake it would be. She was part of the group who did not

understand from the beginning. Administration called for the

Syrian President to step down last year. President Assad is still in

power. The violence is to run the country apart. Critics say this was

a time for the US to act decisively, even with the military. It is the

President's decision. Much more of this Secretary Clinton's decision.

We have at 60,000 people be slaughtered. Arms flowing from

Russia and Iran, and we sit by and watch. It is shameful. If she

cannot influence the President... think she influences the President

on a great variety of issues. On this issue, certainly there have

been others. Are you doing enough for serious? Do you feel you have

failed on that front? I have spent an enormous amount of time trying

to persuade the Security Council to take what I think would be the

right actions over the objections of the Russians. Your eyes are

looking for more decisive action. Often times they say that in public.

When they get behind closed doors, they understand the complexities of

the situation. This is a difficult problem. There is no denying that.

In my diplomacy with our counterparts, they are equally

aware of how challenging it is to try to influence the political

outcome. The international efforts to bring down the Libyan dictator

or were seen by d'Administration as a successful new style of limited

military intervention. The picture was marred by tragedy when

militants in Benghazi killed an American ambassador. Eager to wind

down the war, President Obama remains cautious. Ferries concern

the US has over learned the lessons of the Iraq war. Malted natural

diplomacy still gets Cougars. the Secretary of State of a global

power seems to be easy, we were representing a global power, it has

its own difficulties. If you get the impression you are imposing

something on others, it might be counter-productive. For all of the

reaching out, does Clinton have anything tangible to show for her

She will be remembered as a celebrity and a world traveller. It

will not be for her impact on some huge policy issues. I think she

will be remembered mostly as the person who was always there. She

was always everywhere. Some of your critics say you have been

inconsequential as a Secretary of State. They say there is no-one

agreement or achievement. What is your reaction? I think it is a

narrow and yet this back and inaccurate view. Where first

responsibility was to restore American leadership. That was one

of the reasons I was their day in and out. We set the table for

dealing with a lot of problems and seizing opportunities. There is a

set of issues that historically have not been the province of the

Secretary of State. Women and bills, which I think is a security issue,

technology, how we use it and harnesses to convey the American

narrative. We seized opportunities that have moved American diplomacy

much further than it was when I came into office. Her allies agree.

It is the big picture that matters. They have set up a modern role for

a world superpower in a world where there are the veto powers. This is

a different role from what her husband confronted in the 1990s.

All Secretaries of State stay at a domestic American politics. Clinton

did it so well that she is now popular with both Democrats and

Republicans. As she travelled around the world, preparing her

country's image, her own approval ratings soared. She became more of

a stateswoman. Is she still a politician at heart? Hillary

Clinton has been many things during her accomplished Korea, only as

Secretary of State has she been considered cool. From internet

means to shout out at a recent awards ceremony, she has emerged as

a global star in her own right. What an exciting special guest.

That was Hillary Clinton's husband. What did you learn during your

format used as the Secretary of State that you wish you had known

as a candidate in 2008? There is a hard question to answer. I have

learnt even more about how to relate to people of many different

backgrounds. I live in the most diverse country in the world. That

is one of America's great strengths. I feel even more strongly that we

need to use adversity to enhance our leadership going forward. I can

point to so many examples around the world where people still strive

to be like us, to come here, to attend our universities, Y? Because

of our vitality, values, our vision for the future there we are seeking.

I feel even more strongly about that now than I did in 2008.

answer that would not be out of place on the campaign trail.

Clinton learnt from the best. By floating above the political fray

for the last four matches, she is well positioned for a run at the

White House in 2016, if she wants it. She would be extremely

formidable. If I had to wager to that, I think she would give it

serious consideration. She would be urged to. Do you think her husband

wanted to run? No, I think Bill Clinton loves politics. He sees it

as the greatest avenue for change. She would be a great President. I

would be shocked if he did not want her to run. Her age and health will

be part of the decision. When she returned to work after a concussion

and blood clot putter out of action for one month, her colleagues gave

her an American football how much. Politics was a contact sport, they

said. For now, she wants to relax and reflect on the job she has left.

Will you miss it? I will miss it. I will miss the people I work with,

I'd will miss representing my country. I will miss my plane. I

will miss making the progress we made of the past four years. We set

out long-term challenges. I will certainly miss the experiences I

have had. On Monday you will wake up, and for the first time in 20

years, you will be unemployed. Would you sleep all day or watch

television? I am waiting to find out. Is not just the last 20 years,

I have had a job or been in school full-time since I was 15. I am

interested in seeing a bacon roll were their endeavour to sleep. One

of the most common things that my former colleagues say to me after

they have left me is that they had no idea how tiring it was. I have a

good idea how tired I have been trying to do all that I could on

behalf of the Obama administration. I want to catch up on sleep, I want