Update & bump -- Liberation: Glinda Arrives at State -- One thing seems clear regarding Condoleezza Rice’s stewardship of the State Department: she did not command the admiration of many of those who worked with her. The reaction of State Department employees as Hillary Clinton arrived this morning apparently bears comparison to the liberation of Paris at the end of World War II. . I asked her: if Hillary was Glinda, the Good Witch of the South from the Wizard of Oz, did that make Condoleezza Rice the Wicked Witch of the West? “You’re on to it,” she said. Another person pointed out to me that after Rice’s arrival in 2005 the tone of official State Department publications changed; they began to praise and glorify Rice. “No prior secretary,” said the twenty-year veteran, “did anything like this.”
Check out the welcome Hillary got when she showed up for her new job -- watch it!!
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a rousing welcome this morning when she arrived at Foggy Bottom for the first time, as cheering foreign service and civil service employees packed every inch of the C Street lobby, including the balcony overlooking the flags of foreign nations.
Hat tip to Jeralyn.
LA Times: A celebrity welcome for Hillary Clinton at State Department
firedoglake: And your little dog too . .
Think Progress: State Department staffers compare Rice to Wicked Witch of the West / The Caucus: Secretary of State Clinton Arrives at Foggy Bottom - Mrs. Clinton was greeted by a crowd of more than a thousand State Department employees, cheering and whooping like a campaign gathering.
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