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Hillary Clinton dines with 8 predecessors

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-06-18 09:23

WASHINGTON - Facing a world of diplomatic woes from Iran to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had the opportunity to get some heavyweight advice at a dinner held by eight of her living predecessors.

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Tuesday night's private dinner at former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Washington home gathered top US diplomats from five previous administrations with decades of hands-on experience in some of the most difficult foreign policy crises America has faced.

A spokeswoman for Albright says all but one living former secretary of state attended the event to honor Clinton: Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, Albright, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.

The only one missing was Alexander Haig. No details about the conversation or menu were immediately available.