Hillary Clinton likes 'Parks and Rec' as much as we do

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Juana Summers
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Hillary Clinton is apparently a Parks and Recreation fan.

The former secretary of state kicked off 2010 with a simple request for aide Monica Hanley: "Can you give me times for two TV shows? Parks and Recreation and The Good Wife."

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For what it’s worth, she also asked Hanley to buy skim milk for her tea and to remind her to bring more tea cups into the office from home.

The email was a minuscule part of the roughly 7,000 pages of correspondence posted on the State Department’s website Monday night. Some were more intrigued with Clinton's affinity for The Good Wife given the plot.

HRC watching The Good Wife is like Anna Wintour watching The Devil Wears Prada. https://t.co/RDojNgeNAy— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) September 1, 2015

But the Parks and Rec fandom is made a bit more fun given her place on the show's radar.

Leslie Knope (played by Amy Pohler) once praised Clinton as the "the strongest, smartest punching bag in the world."

Co-creator Michael Schur told HitFix earlier this year that she was one of the guests they’d hoped would join the show.

Asked whether there were any "dream guest stars" that the show couldn’t snag, Schur said Clinton "became impossible once we jumped to 2017."

"We would’ve had to have answered a question that she probably wouldn’t have wanted us to even pose at this point," Schur said in the March interview.

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