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Clinton #39;s record on sanctions
Josh Rogin of "The Daily Beast" on how the State Department resisted sanctions under HIllary Clinton.

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Hillary Clinton touted the economic growth seen during the last two Democratic presidencies during a speech before the New America Foundation on Friday, and she warned that the U.S. risks falling behind global competitors if policymakers do not do more to revive the middle class by generating broad-based economic growth.

Clinton, a former secretary of state who's eyeing a presidential bid in 2016, praised both President Obama and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for their economic stewardship. And she contrasted their years in the White House with the tenure of former President George W. Bush, saying eight years of a Republican presidency "taught us different lessons."

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Discussing a possible run for the White House, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jokes that she could use some marketing advice.

"The 1990s taught us that even in the face of difficult long term economic trends, it's possible, through smart policies" to enjoy broad-based growth, she said, and "all with a balanced budget that resulted in surpluses as far as the eye could see."

But when Bush took the reins in 2001, she said, he demonstrated "how, by policy choices, we can turn surpluses into debt."

"That's what happens when your only policy prescription is to cut taxes for the wealthy and then to deal with the aftermath of a terrible terrorist attack and two wars without paying for them," she said.

During the Bush presidency, she said, "regulators neglected their oversight of the financial sector," leading to a financial crisis that "hit like a flash flood."

And she said the Bush administration compounded the economic problem by failing to invest adequately in infrastructure, education, and research.

"We often think we invented the middle class," Clinton said, but she warned that too many Americans are struggling to get into the middle class or falling out of it. As a course correction, she suggested a new emphasis on education and job training programs, both currently pet causes of Mr. Obama's administration.

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Hillary Clinton, who has been on a whirlwind schedule since stepping down as Secretary of State, surprised Barbara Walters on the final day of her 50 year career today and gave her advice take a vacation.

Youre in no position to tell me! Walters laughed.

Clinton, who showed up on Walters last day on The View, said she really has been relaxing and so should Walters.

Take some time. You have a wealth of friends who adore you. Spend some time with them, take a real vacation, Clinton said. I go out with my dogs, my husband and I take long walks, just let down and enjoy.

Clinton added: For like a week at least.

Hillary Clinton appears on "The View" with Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters on May 16, 2014. ABC News

Walters couldnt let the possible 2016 presidential candidate go without talking trying to get a scoop, telling Clinton: The question I really want to as you is if you are going to run.

Well I am running. Around the park, Clinton said to laughs.

When the conversation turned to what Clinton wants to be called when she becomes a grandmother, co-host Sherri Shepherd suggested, President Clinton.

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(CNN) - Hillary Clinton continues to play coy with whether or not she is running for president.

At Barbara Walters' final taping of ABC's The View, the former secretary of state and prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 was a surprise guest.

During her sit-down with Clinton, Walters asked Clinton whether she is running for president.

Continuing a tradition of joking about the 2016 election, Clinton said, "I am running - around the park."

Since leaving the State Department in 2013, Clinton has crisscrossed the country delivering paid speeches and appearing at high profile events. She acknowledged in April that she was "thinking" about running for president and has seen a number of former staffers begin to organize groups at the prospect of her candidacy.

Walters' final episode of The View was taped on Thursday and featured a cadre of high profile female journalists and newsmakers. The episode will air on Friday.

Walters is retiring from television journalism on Friday after a storied and groundbreaking five-decade career in the business. An icon for women in the profession and someone known for landing high profile interviews, Walters told CNN that she "knew it was time" for her to retire.

"I like all the celebration, that's great. But in my heart, I thought, 'I want to walk away while I'm still doing good work,'" Walters told CNN's Chris Cuomo. "You have to leave sometime, don't you? I want to leave while people like you are saying, 'Why are you going?' I just know it's the time to go."

Clinton offered Walters some advice on how to handle her upcoming influx of free time.

"First of all, take some time off," Clinton said.

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As 2014 has worn on -- and 2016 has drawn closer -- one thing has gone from generally agreed upon to rock-solid conventional wisdom: If Hillary Clinton runs for the Democratic presidential nomination, she wins the Democratic presidential nomination.

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton waits to speak at the World Bank on May 14 in Washington, D.C. Clinton and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim joined others to speak about women's rights. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

No one has emerged -- as then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama had by this same point in the 2008 election -- who, even in theory, has an obvious (or not so obvious) path to upsetting Clinton. And, as we have written before, Clinton herself starts in a far stronger position than she occupied in 2008. Now of course, things could change. A candidate who no one is talking about (or even thinking about) right now could catch fire. And, as Aaron Blake points out, her numbers will start dropping the second she becomes a candidate. But the reality is that if nothing extraordinary happens, the only person who could keep Hillary Clinton from being the party's nominee would be Clinton herself. While we -- and virtually everyone else in the political world -- have begun to take her candidacy as a foregone conclusion, no one in her real inner circle is talking -- meaning that she almost certainly hasn't made the final go/no-go decision. So, what could keep her from running? For all the sturm und drang caused by the insinuations made by Karl Rove regarding Clinton's health scare in late 2012, a blood clot on the brain is a serious thing and even Clinton allies acknowledge it was not insignificant. Bill Clinton insisted this week that his wife is in "better shape" than he is and her aides say she has an absolutely clean bill of health. But Clinton would be 69 years old on election day 2016, and couple her age with that scare in late 2012 and it's hard to imagine Clinton not taking a full accounting of her health before officially deciding to run. Possible that such an accounting leads Clinton to take a pass? Yes. Likely? No. Below are our rankings of the candidates most likely to run for and/or win the Democratic nomination in 2016. We've split them into tiers to accurately reflect the state of play at the moment.

* Hillary Clinton: This requires no further explanation.

* Joe Biden: The vice president spoke to a gathering of Des Moines business leaders during their trip to D.C. this month. He also went to South Carolina to raise money for the state party that same week. Just in case you just landed from another planet, that means he wants to run for president. But senior Democratic insiders agree with the sentiment we have expressed in this space before: Biden knows that if Clinton runs, he has a very steep hill to climb.

*Martin O'Malley: O'Malley, term limited out as governor of Maryland at the end of this year, is running -- and running hard -- for president. A recent Politico story reported that O'Malley had gotten the go-ahead from Clinton to pursue his 2016 ambitions while she makes up her mind. He's doing just that but it may all be for naught; if Clinton runs, it's going to be hard for O'Malley to gain much/any traction against her.

* Elizabeth Warren: The Massachusetts senator is the anti-corporatist liberal icon that could draw the right contrasts with Clinton to make a race out of the primary. But she's not running against Clinton. If Clinton gets out, Warren -- along with Biden -- are probably the co-frontrunners, although questions remain about whether she could grow beyond her, admittedly ardent, base of liberal supporters.

* Andrew Cuomo: The New York governor's 2016 stock has slipped steadily over the past year or so. What many people once saw as Cuomo playing possum to avoid the national spotlight is now being read as a genuine disinterest in running for the nation's highest office. And, even those who think Cuomo might run in a Hillary-less field raise questions about the insularity of his political team and his ties to Wall Street.

*Kirstin Gillibrand: If Clinton doesn't run, we are now convinced that the New York senator would be well positioned to be a serious contender for the nomination. Her work on sexual assault in the military has raised her profile in a major way among Democratic activists and, as her past races make clear, she can raise money like very few others in the party. Outside of Clinton, she may have the most buzz among party strategist types.'

* Deval Patrick: The Massachusetts governor has gone quiet after opening the door to at least thinking about a 2016 race earlier this spring. Patrick is a gifted speaker who would likely play well among activists on the stump. And, if he was the lone African American candidate in a Hillary-less field, Patrick would have a major leg up.

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