Subject: Clinton: Allergy led to my ops room photo
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 12:03:48 -0400

Clinton: Allergy led to my ops room photo
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she covered her mouth to prevent spring allergy cough
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"Those were 38 of the most intense minutes," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said of the scene in the Situation Room of the White House during the mission against Osama bin Laden on May 1. Clinton is in the room with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with with members of the national security team.

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ROME — An allergy and not anguish may explain why Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had her hand to her mouth while watching the commando operation to kill Osama bin Laden, she said on Thursday.
A photo of Clinton, President Barack Obama and other senior officials watching the operation live from the White House situation room has become one of the most striking images of the raid that killed the al Qaeda leader.
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The photo shows Clinton with her hand to her mouth in what looks like a gesture of anxiety over the outcome of the operation.
"Those were 38 of the most intense minutes. I have no idea what any of us were looking at that particular millisecond when the picture was taken," she said on Thursday when asked about the photo during a visit to Rome.
"I am somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs. So it may have no great meaning whatsoever," Clinton added.

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