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*​**Correct The Record Wednesday December 10, 2014 Morning Roundup:*

*Headlines:

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*Politico: Howard Dean: “I’m Ready for Hillary”
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/howard-dean-ready-for-hillary-113444.html#.VIgsdvldWSp>*

“If I have the opportunity, I will cast my vote for Hillary Clinton for
President.”

*Washington Times: “Howard Dean: If Hillary Clinton runs, I will support
her”
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/10/howard-dean-if-hillary-clinton-runs-i-will-support/>*

“Former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean is
throwing his support behind a would-be presidential campaign of former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, writing that Mrs. Clinton is ‘by
far the most qualified person in the United States to serve as president.’”

*MSNBC: “Where is Hillary Clinton on torture?”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/where-hillary-clinton-torture>*

“There appears to be broad consensus against torture in all cases among
Clinton and other Democrats eyeing a potential presidential run in two
years, though the question of prosecuting CIA officers who engaged in the
practices remains open.”

*Talking Points Memo: Dylan Scott: “The Left Ramps Up Push For Warren Vs.
Clinton”
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/elizabeth-warren-challenge-hillary-clinton-2016>*

"But is it really going to make a difference? Warren's office repeated
Tuesday that she is not running for president. Lacey Rose, a Warren
spokeswoman, told TPM that neither MoveOn or DFA had consulted the senator
before making their announcements. 'As Senator Warren has said many times,
she is not running for President,' Rose said in an email."

*The Daily Beast: “Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/10/progressives-big-ideas-will-win-us-2016.html>*

“A challenge to Clinton from the left, Wikler [Ben Wikler, Washington
director of MoveOn] said, whether it comes from Warren or someone else,
would ensure that these ideas of economic populism become part of the next
Democratic administration, much the same way the Affordable Care Act grew
out of the Obama/Clinton/John Edwards debates of 2008.”

*Mediaite: “Is Sarah Palin ‘Ready’ for Hillary?”
<http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-sarah-palin-ready-for-hillary/>*

“‘I would love to see a woman on both sides of the aisle shooting for that
top spot,’ the former vice-presidential candidate replied, searching for an
acceptably diplomatic answer.”

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Confident Biden sets timeline for presidential
candidacy”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/226522-confident-biden-sets-timeline-for-presidential-candidacy>*

“Vice President Biden said Tuesday he’ll make up his mind about whether to
run for president ‘at the end of the spring or early summer.’”

*Articles:*

*Politico: Howard Dean: “I’m Ready for Hillary”
<http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/12/howard-dean-ready-for-hillary-113444.html#.VIgsdvldWSp>*

By Howard Dean

December 10, 2014

Hillary Clinton is by far the most qualified person in the United States to
serve as President. If she runs, I will support her. I have known Hillary
for almost twenty-five years. We first met when I was the governor of
Vermont and she was the First Lady, giving us the opportunity to work
together in various capacities, particularly on expanding health care
access. During those years, I have learned that she is one of the most
conscientious and competent people I have ever met. She has an enormous
capacity to analyze and solve problems. She has a work ethic that drives
her to persist until the job is done and done right. And she has a record
in the Senate of successfully working with both sides of our very combative
political spectrum in order to accomplish goals that improve the lives of
ordinary Americans

One of the most important reasons I am supporting her is because Secretary
Clinton understands the institutional requirements of the Supreme Court.
More than 73 percent of Americans think the Supreme Court is no longer a
fair arbitrator and is influenced by political considerations. I am one of
those 73 percent. This Court has repeatedly made decisions that have harmed
our country for the sake of extending a political and ideological agenda
that is far outside the mainstream of American traditions—on issues like
campaign finance, voting rights, the rights of women, and religious freedom.

America needs a thoughtful President who will appoint judges and justices
who will stand up for the Constitution and the law instead of catering to
the dictates of those who fund the right-wing Federalist Society. I am
confident that Hillary Clinton will provide that leadership.

As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton built up a strong record of working
effectively with our partners and allies to deal with challenges to global
peace. In her four years as Secretary of State, she traveled nearly a
million miles and visited with foreign leaders in 112 countries to address
common problems from terrorism to overcoming the oppression of women to
global warming. She has the experience and knowledge required to protect
American national security in a time of new challenges that threaten peace
and prosperity, including the menace that is ISIL. Secretary Clinton’s work
serving President Obama has earned the respect of any thinking
American—including Republicans—both inside the Beltway and around the
country.

Finally, although the statistics suggest the economy is improving, over 60%
of Americans aren’t feeling good about their own situation. Nearly all of
the gains in the past fifteen years have bypassed the vast majority of
Americans, while the holdings of the top 20% have increased dramatically.
This is a fundamental disparity that will be the greatest challenge our
next President must tackle—how to reestablish a commitment to all of us to
restore the opportunity to live and achieve the American Dream.

Hillary Clinton will not shrink from this challenge. In the coming months,
I expect her to lay out her plans to attack income inequality and help
rebuild the middle class. She knows how to sell a broad range of Americans
on these policies, and has shown how to stand up against extremist economic
policies.

America needs a President who will focus on the next hundred years, not one
who hopes to turn the clock back by a hundred years. I am sure I will have
disagreements with her as she focuses on getting Americans back to work and
rebuilding an America that works for all of us. I value and respect her
enough that whatever differences may exist will be minimal compared to the
tasks we really need to do for the good of restoring our country. We need a
mature, seasoned, thoughtful leader at a time when maturity and
thoughtfulness are increasingly rare commodities in Washington, D.C.

If I have the opportunity, I will cast my vote for Hillary Clinton for
President.

*Washington Times: “Howard Dean: If Hillary Clinton runs, I will support
her”
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/10/howard-dean-if-hillary-clinton-runs-i-will-support/>*

By David Sherfinski

December 10, 2014

Former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean is
throwing his support behind a would-be presidential campaign of former
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, writing that Mrs. Clinton is “by
far the most qualified person in the United States to serve as president.”

“If she runs, I will support her,” Mr. Dean wrote in Politico, praising her
work ethic, ability to analyze and solve problems, and bipartisan record in
the U.S. Senate.

Mr. Dean also wrote that the country needs a president who will appoint
judges and justices “who will stand up for the Constitution and the law
instead of catering to the dictates of those who fund the right-wing
Federalist Society. I am confident that Hillary Clinton will provide that
leadership.”

He goes on to write that her work serving as President Obama’s secretary of
state has earned the respect of “any thinking American — including
Republicans,” and he expects Mrs. Clinton to lay out her plans in the
coming months to attack income inequality and rebuild the middle class.

Those last issues are ones liberal groups are trying to get the Democratic
party to emphasize more in the wake of the 2014 midterm elections. The
blessing of Mr. Dean, who despite his early exit from the 2004 presidential
race became known for his ability to mobilize grassroots activists, could
give Mrs. Clinton a bit of a boost on the left, which is calling for Sen.
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to enter the race as an alternative to
Mrs. Clinton.

*MSNBC: “Where is Hillary Clinton on torture?”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/where-hillary-clinton-torture>*

By Alex Seitz-Wald

December 9, 2014, 4:32 p.m. EST

The use of torture on terrorism-related detainees is back in the spotlight
following the release of a landmark new Senate investigative report on the
practice during the Bush administration.

The once-heated national debates about so-called “Enhanced Interrogation
Tactics” subsided when President Obama issued an executive order barring
their use two days after taking office, but they were an important side
note during the 2008 Democratic presidential primary between Obama and
then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, who will likely run to replace her former rival
in 2016.

There appears to be broad consensus against torture in all cases among
Clinton and other Democrats eyeing a potential presidential run in two
years, though the question of prosecuting CIA officers who engaged in the
practices remains open.

Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders both
have spoken out strongly since the release of the report Tuesday. The views
of two other candidates likely to run,  former Sen. Jim Webb and Maryland
Gov. Martin O’Malley, are less clear, however. Webb opposed torture in the
Senate, but has been out of office for several years, while O’Malley, as a
governor, is not expected to articulate opinions on foreign policy.

Now a private citizen herself, Clinton has not spoken often on the subject
since stepping down as secretary of state early last year. But during a
conversation at the Council on Foreign Relations sponsored by HBO in June,
Clinton called for the release of the Senate report, but said she did not
support prosecuting CIA interrogators.

“I am hopeful it will get released,” Clinton said of the report, which was
hung up in negotiations between the administration and Senate. “I was not
one of those who thought it was necessarily wise to ignore everything that
had happened. I thought we needed more transparency … I think the American
people deserve to see it.”

But Clinton continued that she “didn’t want people to be criminally
prosecuted, people who were doing what they were told to do, that there
were legal opinions supporting what they were told to do.”

In new her memoir about her time helming State, “Hard Choices,” Clinton
adds: “There was no denying that our country’s approach to human rights had
gotten somewhat out of balance” after the Bush administration. She also
praised Obama’s order “prohibiting the use of torture or official cruelty,”
using the term the Bush administration refused to use for the harsh
interrogation tactics.

During the 2008 Democratic primary, however, torture was a minor issue
adjacent to the central disagreement on the Iraq War. Clinton, to the right
of the rest of the field on foreign policy, took a more nuanced view on
torture than some of her competitors, like then-Sens. Barack Obama and Joe
Biden.

The two challengers opposed the use of torture in all cases, but Clinton at
first carved out an exception for a ticking time bomb scenario. “In the
event we were ever confronted with having to interrogate a detainee with
knowledge of an imminent threat to millions of Americans, then the decision
to depart from standard international practices must be made by the
president,” she told the New York Daily News in 2007.

In an editorial board meeting, she added that there “are very rare”
circumstances when an exception to the no torturing rule would be needed,
and “if they occur, there has to be some lawful authority for pursuing it.”

Obama attacked her on the issue in a late January 2008 speech in Denver,
suggesting her position on torture even put her to the right of the
then-presumed GOP nominee John McCain, who opposed the harsh tactics after
being tortured in Vietnam.

But by then, Clinton had changed her position. When asked about a ticking
time bomb scenario during a debate in September 2007, she categorically
ruled out the use of torture. “It cannot be American policy, period,” she
said.

That held as her policy, despite the fact that it initially put her in
disagreement with her husband, who often cited the TV show “24” as an
example of why torture is sometimes necessary.

On Tuesday, following the release of the Senate report, Biden was asked
about torture at an event hosted by Politico. “Its a badge of honor,” he
said of the report. “Every country has engaged in activity not proud of but
name another country that will stand up and say we made a mistake and we
won’t do it again.”

“With regard to who should be prosecuted,” he continued. “It is for the
Justice Department to determine if action should be taken.”

Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had a
strict anti-torture policy going back at least to his 2008 Democratic
presidential bid. He’s currently considering another run in 2016. “Honest
to God, I haven’t made up my mind,” he said Tuesday.

Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is also seriously considering
a run for the presidency as a Democrat, said Tuesday that the report
“details an ugly chapter in American history during which our leaders and
the intelligence community dishonored our nation’s proud traditions.”

Sanders, who chairs the Senate’s Veterans Affairs Committee, said he
opposed the practice at all times. “The United States must not engage in
torture. If we do, in an increasingly brutal world, we lose our moral
standing to condemn other nations or groups that engage in uncivilized
behavior.”

Webb and O’Malley have not spoken publicly on the issue recently, and
spokespeople for both did not reply to requests for comment.

While he was in the Senate, Webb, a veteran and foreign intervention
skeptic, warned torture could be counterproductive and yield bad evidence.

*Talking Points Memo: Dylan Scott: “The Left Ramps Up Push For Warren Vs.
Clinton”
<http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/elizabeth-warren-challenge-hillary-clinton-2016>*

By Dylan Scott

December 10, 2014, 6:00 a.m. EST

It has been percolating for some time, but the appetite among some on the
left for a strong Democratic primary challenger to Hillary Clinton, should
she decide to run in 2016, has burst into the open in recent days.

Two progressive grassroots groups, MoveOn.org and Howard Dean's Democracy
for America, announced Tuesday that they would launch efforts to draft Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) into the race, if their members approved.

“There is too much at stake to have anything other than our best candidates
in the debate," Ilya Sheyman, executive director of MoveOn.org Political
Action, said in a statement. "We are prepared to show Senator Warren that
she has the support she needs to enter—and win—the presidential race.”

If a majority of its members okay it, MoveOn.org plans to spend at least $1
million to convince Warren to seek the White House. That would include
staffing up in states like Iowa and New Hampshire, assembling volunteers
and small-dollar donors à la the Ready for Hillary PAC, and media buys.
Democracy for America didn't detail its plans, but noted that a previous
poll of its members had Warren with a nearly 20-point advantage over
Clinton.

It was the latest sign among what you might call the institutional left of
a desire for somebody to seriously challenge Clinton, who is currently an
unprecedented favorite to be the Democratic nominee if she makes a bid.

The Nation focused most of its Dec. 15 issue on the need for a challenge to
Clinton from the left. "Even the most ardent Hillary supporters should
acknowledge that the Democratic Party, and the country, will be better
served if she has real competition in the primaries," the magazine's
editors wrote. "This is not an anti-Hillary message; it’s a pro-democracy
one."

The MoveOn/DFA combination is also, at least in theory, a significant
amplification of the effort to pull Warren specifically into the race. They
have more than 9 million members between them, a base that could plausibly
compete with the three-million-plus supporters that Ready for Hillary has
amassed. However, the $1 million that MoveOn.org pledged is paltry compared
to the $12 million that Ready for Hillary has raised since its founding
last year. It is significantly more, though, than the $66,000 that Ready
for Warren, the main draft group prior to this week, has raised while
attracting tens of thousands of supporters.

Erica Sagrans, who launched the Ready for Warren PAC, told TPM that MoveOn
gave her a heads up before theTuesday announcement and said it would look
for ways for the groups to work together. "The only thing inevitable about
the 2016 presidential race is that the movement to draft Senator Warren
will grow stronger and louder," she said in an email.

But is it really going to make a difference? Warren's office repeated
Tuesday that she is not running for president. Lacey Rose, a Warren
spokeswoman, told TPM that neither MoveOn or DFA had consulted the senator
before making their announcements.

"As Senator Warren has said many times, she is not running for President,"
Rose said in an email.

But there is a recognition even among those who are supporting a Hillary
candidacy that the desire for a robust primary challenge is real. They have
also been saying all the right things about taking any potential insurgents
seriously.

"There is a sentiment that the left and HRC would be better served if she
had something to be fearful of," one source aligned with the proto-Hillary
2016 world told TPM.

If Warren stays out as she says she will then, the question is whether this
energy will dissipate or shift to another candidate. Clinton might not
actually have much of a progressive problem once the real voting starts, as
others have written, but a well-financed and well-run opposition campaign
could still be a hassle for her if it taps into any lingering disaffection
with her candidacy.

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb (D) has already announced an exploratory
committee, and two of the other most likely candidates -- Sen. Bernie
Sanders and outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley -- have recently made
some high-profile hires for their expected campaigns. Sanders recruited Tad
Devine, who worked on Al Gore and John Kerry's presidential campaigns, and
his team has been game-planning its fundraising needs, according to MSNBC.
O'Malley has brought on Bill Hyers, who managed New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio's 2013 campaign, as Politico reported last week.

*The Daily Beast: “Progressives: Big Ideas Will Win Us 2016”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/10/progressives-big-ideas-will-win-us-2016.html>*

By David Freedlander

December 10, 2014

[Subtitle:] The 2014 election was a wipeout, progressives say, because
Democrats lacked a bold economic message to inspire voters. Now they have a
new plan to win—with or without Hillary Clinton.

For progressives, the waning days of 2014 should be as dark a moment as
their movement has faced since 2004.

Then, despite hundreds of millions of dollars from liberal champions like
George Soros being poured into an unprecedented grassroots organizing
campaign, despite the Howard Dean campaign bringing scores of young people
with their laptops to the cornfields of Iowa, despite the flourishing of
the new Netroots, the launch of the liberal radio network Air America,
Michael Moore selling out movie theaters, and the Iraq War’s popularity
cratering, John Kerry still lost to a president many Democrats viewed as an
idiot. Then, The Nation magazine’s post-election cover simply featured a
picture of storm clouds. Lead columnist Katha Pollitt’s piece inside ran
under the headline “Mourn.”

Now progressives are sifting through the wreckage of a midterm election in
which the country appeared to take a decidedly conservative turn, not just
in the South but in the formerly purple redoubts of the Northeast and
Mountain states. Movement progressives, many of whose groups sprang up over
the past 15 years in opposition to the kind of triangulation Bill Clinton’s
leadership of the party heralded, are blanching the prospect of an
all-but-certain Hillary Clinton nomination as Democratic Party
standard-bearer. Even The New Republic has been gutted!

“Democrats lost in 2014 because they failed to have a big, bold economic
message that tangibly impacts people’s lives,” said Adam Green, co-founder
of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. “People didn’t wake up on
Election Day with a reason to vote.”

To remedy that, Green and the PCCC are launching a new initiative designed
to grab the agenda and drag the party leftward in the run-up to the 2016
election. On Wednesday morning, the group is announcing a plan to solicit
what it is calling its “Big Ideas Project” with a new website, ThinkBig.Us,
that will invite elected officials, policy experts, and the general public
to submit and vote on the ideas they want to see the Democratic Party take
control of next.

Thirty members of Congress, including Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
and Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, have agreed to review the proposals
once they are complete.

“There is a hunger for big ideas,” said Green. “The last election, hundreds
of millions of dollars were spent saying, ‘Vote against Republicans because
they will do something bad,’ as opposed to offering any governing vision on
what we do.”

Among the ideas that Green proposed is free college education for all,
something he said would motivate young people and their parents to vote in
2016.

Other groups in the progressive orbit are trying out other tactics. This
week, MoveOn.org and Democracy for America announced they were teaming up
with Ready for Warren, raising money to convince liberal hero Elizabeth
Warren to run for president, despite her insistence that she is not
interested.

“From our point of view, the defining issue of the moment is the explosion
of inequality, where the rules are rigged by the one percent and Wall
Street to the detriment of ordinary Americans,” said Ben Wikler, Washington
director of MoveOn. “We want candidates and voters in the mix in the 2016
primary who will speak to the need to change the system so that it works
for everyone.”

A challenge to Clinton from the left, Wikler said, whether it comes from
Warren or someone else, would ensure that these ideas of economic populism
become part of the next Democratic administration, much the same way the
Affordable Care Act grew out of the Obama/Clinton/John Edwards debates of
2008.

Many progressives said that despite heartening actions from the Obama
administration on climate change and immigration, they were looking beyond
the next two years to rebuild the movement.

“Progressives are thinking beyond Obama at this point,” said Green. “We
need to use 2015 and 2016 to set the stage for 2017.”

And some are thinking even beyond that. In an email, Markos Moulitsas, the
founder of the Netroots hub Daily Kos, said the progressive movement’s main
focus should be on figuring out its turnout problems for the next midterm
election in 2018 by exciting those who do not often vote in off years.

“Did you know that more people voted for Barack Obama in 2012 in ALABAMA
than voted for the Republican candidate for governor in the state this
year?” he wrote in an email. “If our people turn out, we win, and that’s
the big challenge heading into future cycles…Republicans cannot win when
turnout is 60 percent. The challenge is, can we win in 2018, because as
long as we continue to see that kind of massive base Democratic vote
dropoff in non-presidential years, Republicans will stick around despite
representing an increasingly small minority of the American public.”

Others agree, pointing out that the 2014 is not as dark a year as it may
seem.

“The losses of 2014 were Democratic losses, they weren’t progressive
losses,” said Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for
America. He noted that ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage,
legalize marijuana, and grant greater civil rights to gays, all won, as did
progressive candidates like Al Franken of Minnesota and Jeff Merkley of
Oregon.

DFA is joining MoveOn in its Draft Warren efforts, but Chamberlain said
other campaigns will be even more important in 2016:

“We want to recruit Elizabeth Warrens up and down the ballot in every state
who understand that these issues of economic populism are the key to
rebuilding the middle class.”

Meanwhile, the hard work of movement building continues. Progressives are
bracing for a series of initiatives at the state level that will weaken
their infrastructure, much as Scott Walker attempted with his public sector
union reforms in Wisconsin. They see some hope in the nationwide protests
over the rulings in Ferguson and New York City as potentially organizing
more voters around issues of police and criminal justice reform. Efforts to
organize low-wage workers like fast food and car wash workers could, in
time, replace some of the union power that will be lost by Republican
efforts at the state level.

“There has to be this conscious focus on what are the issues that we are
drawing the lines on, and teeing it up to prove to people which side we are
on,” said Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future. “That is
very hard for the Democratic Party to do, because they are trying to raise
a couple of billion dollars to win the next election.”

*Mediaite: “Is Sarah Palin ‘Ready’ for Hillary?”
<http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-sarah-palin-ready-for-hillary/>*

By Matt Wilstein

December 9, 2014, 6:07 p.m. EST

Sarah Palin gave an interview to Extra set to air Tuesday night that was
mainly intended to promote the second season of her Amazing America reality
show but also touched on the politics of 2016 just for fun. At one point
the interviewer asked for her take on a Hillary Clinton-led Democratic
presidential ticket.

“Of course, Hillary Clinton’s name has been floated out there for a long
time as the Democratic nominee, are we ready for that?” Extra’s Charissa
Thompson asked Palin.

“I would love to see a woman on both sides of the aisle shooting for that
top spot,” the former vice-presidential candidate replied, searching for an
acceptably diplomatic answer.

As for her own presidential aspirations, Palin said she’s asked “quite a
few times” a day if she is going to run for president in 2016. She insisted
that she did not want to “sound like a typical politician” before saying,
“2016 is a long time away” and “that’s a big darn deal when it comes to
family.”

Finally, Palin weighed in on those rumors that she was actively considering
joining The View as a co-host. “I think it would be fun to be able to
highlight more of the issues that they get to focus on,” she said. But
ultimately she decided she would rather do “something positive, encouraging
and inspiring and not bickering sitting across a table or on a panel.”

Watch video below, via Extra:

[VIDEO]

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Confident Biden sets timeline for presidential
candidacy”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/226522-confident-biden-sets-timeline-for-presidential-candidacy>*

By Jonathan Easley

December 9, 2014, 4:44 p.m. EST

Vice President Biden said Tuesday he’ll make up his mind about whether to
run for president “at the end of the spring or early summer.”

"I honest to God haven't made up my mind,” Biden said at a ‘Women Rule’
event hosted by Politico. “I'm confident I'd be in a position to be
competitive."

"The one thing that moves me — I think that I have the ability to bring the
sides together,” he added.

Biden’s daughter Ashley appeared on stage with him at the event, and called
his potential presidential aspirations a “family decision.”

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is far and away the Democratic
presidential frontrunner, leading her rivals by more than 50 percentage
points, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

Biden came in third among Democrats in a a CNN-ORC poll released in late
November. Clinton took 65 percent among Democrats in the poll, followed by
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at 10 percent, and Biden at 9 percent.

*Calendar:*

*Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official
schedule.*

·  December 15 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton discusses closing gender data
gaps with Michael Bloomberg (AP
<https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/542345675493892096>)

·  December 16 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton honored by Robert F. Kennedy
Center for Justice and Human Rights (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/hillary-clinton-ripple-of-hope-award-112478.html>
)

·  January 21 – Saskatchewan, Canada: Sec. Clinton keynotes the Canadian
Imperial Bank of Commerce’s “Global Perspectives” series (MarketWired
<http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/former-us-secretary-state-hillary-rodham-clinton-deliver-keynote-address-saskatoon-1972651.htm>
)

·  January 21 – Winnipeg, Canada: Sec. Clinton keynotes the Global
Perspectives series (Winnipeg Free Press
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Clinton-coming-to-Winnipeg--284282491.html>
)

·  February 24 – Santa Clara, CA: Sec. Clinton to Keynote Address at
Inaugural Watermark Conference for Women (PR Newswire
<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hillary-rodham-clinton-to-deliver-keynote-address-at-inaugural-watermark-conference-for-women-283200361.html>
)

·  March 19 – Atlantic City, NJ: Sec. Clinton keynotes  American Camp
Association conference (PR Newswire <http://www.sys-con.com/node/3254649>)