Hillary Clinton Says Burmese Politicians Learned Democracy From "The West Wing"
At a ceremony honoring Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with the Congressional Gold Medal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Burmese Speaker of the lower house told her that they learned about democracy by watching old episodes of the West Wing.
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
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