Cutting Room Floor: The Winds of Change – Roll Call

Cutting Room Floor: The Winds of Change

By Roll Call Staff

Posted December 4, 2009 at 4:08pm

[IMGCAP(1)]Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton watches a member of her security detail try to open an unwieldy umbrella Wednesday while leaving the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Clinton had been testifying to the Senate Armed Services Committee about Afghanistan.

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