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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the presentation of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security at Georgetown University, February 25, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Win McNamee, Getty Images
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans on tackling some heavy issues in her memoir, but she added some levity to a discussion about the book on Wednesday, joking about what she might call it.
When asked about the title of her upcoming book, Clinton cited some of the funny suggestions offered up by Washington Post readers. "The Scrunchie Chronicles," Clinton said, "That actually is a keeper. That's on the short list."
That mock title references Clinton's notorious predilection for wearing a scrunchie -- a hair tie that's long been out of fashion.
The former secretary of state -- and potential 2016 presidential candidate -- was talking about her book-writing process in a speech to the Association of American Publishers. Clinton said her book, expected to come out this summer, will be "about my experiences at the State Department, our rapidly changing and increasingly interdependent world, and the challenges facing us in the 21st century," the Washington Post reports.
The book will be Clinton's fourth.
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NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton cast doubt on the interim nuclear agreement with Iran, saying in a muscular policy speech here Wednesday night that she is personally skeptical that Irans leaders will follow through on a comprehensive agreement to end their march toward nuclear weapons.
Still, the former secretary of state and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate told a pro-Israel audience in New York that she stands behind the Obama administrations negotiations with Iran, and she commended the work of her successor, John F. Kerry.
Clinton said the United States should give space for diplomacy to work and avoid imposing new unilateral sanctions or any other actions that might lead any allies to back out of existing international sanctions against Iran.
The odds of reaching that comprehensive agreement are not good, Clinton said. I am also personally skeptical that the Iranians would follow through and deliver. I have seen their behavior over the years. But this is a development that is worth testing.
If the negotiations with Iran fail, however, Clinton said the United States should explore every other option.
Lets be clear, she said, every other option does remain on the table.
In a 30-minute address at an American Jewish Congress gala where she was honored with a lifetime achievement award by actress Julianna Margulies and serenaded at the dinner table by Israeli singer Liel Kolet Clinton presented herself as a tough defender of Israel in the Senate and at the State Department.
When Americans of all faiths look at Israel, we see a homeland for a people long oppressed and a democracy that has to defend itself at every turn, Clinton said. In Israels story, we see our own.
Clinton described in detail her role in shaping the countrys policies with regard to Iran from the earliest days of the Obama administration. This is likely to be a focus of her forthcoming memoir, due out this spring, which she teased in a separate speech earlier Wednesday.
Addressing the Association of American Publishers, Clinton said the book would cover challenges in the 21st century from Crimea to climate change. Just another light summer read, she quipped.
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Washington (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton is talking tough about Russia these days, for reasons both pragmatic and political.
The overwhelming favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, if she decides to run, Clinton already faces GOP criticism for allegedly being soft on Moscow as President Barack Obama's secretary of state until last year.
A recent Republican National Committee statement mocked the "reset" button she offered to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in 2009 in what was a symbolic effort by the Obama administration to move past Russia's military backing for two breakaway regions in Georgia.
Now Russia's attempted annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from neighboring Ukraine, another former Soviet territory, has again put Washington-Moscow relations in the spotlight.
Using generally stronger and more provocative language than the administration she once represented, Clinton seeks to buff her own foreign policy credentials and those of her party without straying too far from the official government messaging and tactics.
"She has to walk a very fine line"
"She has to walk a very fine line," Brown University political scientist Wendy Schiller said of the former first lady and U.S. senator.
The goal is to maintain her credibility as a former secretary of state, and the Democratic Party's credibility on security and defense issues, as the nation heads toward congressional elections in November and the presidential vote two years later, Schiller told CNN.
"She sees it as important not just for her but for the Democratic Party as a whole," Schiller said. Otherwise, "you go from the party that killed Osama bin Laden to the party that can't stop Vladimir Putin."
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