Former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry at Georgetown University on Nov. 15, 2013, during the "Advance Afghan Women" symposium. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
The political wattage in the front row — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Laura Bush, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, former Clinton aide Melanne Verveer and others — was meant to be a show of U.S. support for Afghan women ahead of the withdrawal of most U.S. forces from Afghanistan next year.
But Kerry had some tips for the men in the audience at Georgetown University on Friday.
“For all the men studying here at Georgetown, who sat in or sit in classrooms where Bill Clinton sat so many years ago, my advice to you is this: Study hard, go to Oxford, become governor of your state, and then maybe you can marry one of the country’s remarkable secretaries of state.”
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