IT'S OFFICIAL: Hillary Clinton to Be Named Secretary of State
Now Barack can sleep while Hillary answers that 3 a.m. phone call!
Get ready for an exciting Monday.
Thanks to a deal with Bill Clinton over his post-White House work and other behinds the scenes negotiations, Hillary Clinton will join President-elect Barack Obama’s national security team as secretary of state, according to reports.
Obama will be joined by Clinton at a Chicago news conference Monday, Democratic officials said, where he also planned to announce that Defense Secretary Robert Gates would remain in his job for a year or more and that retired Marine General James M. Jones would serve as national security adviser.
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