Hillary Clinton Latest Edition Of Her Memoir

 

Hillary Clinton's 2014 memoir Hard Choices is out in a new paperback edition minus a detail that trade hawk Donald Trump might notice. The original hardcover book included a discussion of Clinton's efforts as secretary of state to urge foreign countries to join negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

That 12-nation Pacific rim agreement has become a political football, with the Obama administration cheerleading for its success and Trump rooting for its failure and Clinton caught in the middle. Her book's new paperback edition drops entirely the description of her work on the pro-TPP side during a 2009 conference in El Salvador.

The book read in 2014 “We worked hard to improve and ratify trade agreements with Colombia and Panama and encouraged Canada and the group of countries that became known as the Pacific Alliance all open-market democracies driving toward a more prosperous future to join negotiations with Asian nations on TPP, the trans-Pacific trade agreement”

According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research the entire two-page section that described her advocacy for the TPP is gone, instead there's a disclaimer on the copyright page noting that a limited number of sections have been cut 'to accommodate a shorter length for this edition.' In all 96 pages were eliminated, some of them in a way that changes Clinton's public positions just months before the presidential election. Clinton's position on TPP while she was secretary of state was in lockstep with Obama's, giving at least 45 speeches in which she expressed support for it, according to a tally compiled by CNN. 

During one 2012 speech in Australia, she said the TPP set “the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field and when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world's total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment”.