Media Conference Call: Clinton's Trip to the Middle East
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's second trip abroad approaches, this time to the Middle East, CFR Senior Fellow Elliot Abrams...
Speaker: Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Presider: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor, CFR.org, Council on Foreign Relations
February 25, 2009
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