Emails: Aide proposed ‘Clinton Doctrine,’ compared it to Truman Doctrine

Published November 4, 2016 8:07pm ET



A top State Department adviser proposed in 2011 that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should announce the “Clinton doctrine” in the days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power.

Anne-Marie Slaughter said Clinton should deliver a “short, powerful speech” that outlines the proposed Clinton Doctrine, but proposed that she should not present it as the “Clinton Doctrine.”

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