Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the XIX International AIDS Conference, Monday, July 23, 2012, in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Sunday in Cairo with Egypt’s top military leaders, who are veterans of the Mubarak era and close friends of the U.S. military establishment. They show little sign of changing their traditional wariness of Tehran. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she arrives at Lusaka International Airport in Lusaka, Zambia, on Sunday, June 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

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Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton share a laugh before their meeting at the president's residence in Jerusalem on Monday, July 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walks with Hussein Tantawi to a meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Cairo on Sunday. Mrs. Clinton is holding talks with Egypt’s top military leaders to press the military to work with Egypt’s new Islamist leaders on a full transition. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi greets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton before a meeting at the Ministry of Defense in Cairo on Sunday, July 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during the US-ASEAN business forum and dinner in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Friday, July 13, 2012. The next day, Clinton met with Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsi. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski/Pool)

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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with Laotian Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong Wednesday during her historic visit to Laos, the first by a U.S. secretary of state since 1955. She also visited a Buddhist temple and viewed artificial limbs at a center that provides free prosthetics to Laotians wounded by bombs left over from the Vietnam War. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton place flowers at a statue after during a tour of the Ho Phra Keo Temple, in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, July 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a press conference at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Thursday, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendon Smialowski, Pool)