The State Department is occasionally on time with its Daily Appointments schedule for Secretary Clinton. This morning, it's up relatively early. On tap for today:
SECRETARY OF STATE CLINTON:
12:00 p.m. Working Lunch with Treasury Secretary Geitner.
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4:00 p.m. Swearing In Ceremony as 67th Secretary of State.
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Final access time for writers and stills: 3:15 p.m. from the 23rd Street entrance
4:45 p.m. Swearing In Ceremony Reception.
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To be a fly on the wall during that Geithner lunch. They both want to take the lead on China policy, and both seem poised to put up something of a fight for it. As Peter Baker pointed out in the
Times yesterday, Clinton has already been
turfed out on a number of issues, and both she and her spokesman have indicated her interest in the China file by calling for a "comprehensive" approach to what David Rothkopf on Friday
called the "unattended giant...in U.S. foreign policy."
At the least though, the State Department press folks might want to spellcheck the Treasury Secretary's name before those releases go out.
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