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Myanmar looks to ‘The West Wing’ for tips on how to run a democracy

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton amassed some giggles on Wednesday when she recounted a story from her first official trip to Myanmar last year, the Associated Press reports. According to Clinton, Myanmar’s lower house speaker asked her for advice on how to run a democratic congress, and confessed that he and his colleagues were trying to learn by watching old episodes of The West Wing.