Hillary Clinton Secretary Of State - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for Secretary of State, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
Will Hillary Clinton be Secretary of State in the Obama administration?
Clinton, the former first lady who pushed Obama hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, was rumored to be a contender for the Secretary of State job last week, but the talk died down as party activists questioned whether she was best-suited to be the nation’s top diplomat in an Obama administration.
The talk resumed in Washington and elsewhere Thursday, a day after Obama named several former aides to President Bill Clinton to help run his transition effort.
The two Democratic officials who spoke Thursday did so on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering Obama and his staff. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines referred questions to the Obama transition team, which said it had no comment.
Other people frequently mentioned for the Secretary of State job are Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and New Mexico’s Democratic governor, Bill Richardson.
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November 14th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama met with his former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to see if she would be interested in a role in his administration, two sources told CNN Friday.
Sen. Hillary Clinton has been mentioned as a candidate for Obama’s secretary of state, sources say.
Obama also will meet with the man he defeated in the general election, Republican Sen. John McCain, on Monday, the Obama transition team announced Friday.
Clinton went to the meeting because “she knew Obama wanted to talk about whether she would have a role in the administration,” one of the sources knowledgeable about the meeting said.
Obama and Clinton met in Chicago, Illinois, at the request of the president-elect, the sources told CNN.
The two sources said Clinton was surprised to hear the rumors about the secretary of state position.
The sources could not confirm that the two discussed the nation’s top diplomatic position or that it was offered.