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Finally officially nominated by Barack Obama to be the nation's next secretary of state today, Sen. Hillary Clinton took to the podium during the big announcement to thank New Yorkers for allowing her to be their senator these past few years.
“Leaving the Senate is very difficult for me,” Clinton said, D-N.Y., said, adding that she's been thinking about American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, as well as the foreign service workers in countries abroad. Last week’s attacks in Mumbai, India, along with constant terror threats from other parts of the globe, apparently helped Clinton decided that she could do some good at the State Department.
We need “more partners and fewer adversaries,” Clinton said. “I am proud to join you [Obama] on what will be a difficult and exciting new adventure in this century."
She added: “If confirmed, I will give this assignment, administration and our country my all."
Husband Bill Clinton said he is "deeply proud" of Clinton's nomination.
"In her service to the people of New York and our nation, Hillary has demonstrated the knowledge, passion, resilience, and capacity to learn that our country needs at this critical time," the former president said in a statement. "She loves being a senator from New York, but as she has in all the 37 years I've known her, she answered the call to serve. I commend President-Elect Obama for asking her to be a part of a great national security team. America will be well-served."
So what about that old rivalry between Obama and Clinton that we saw on the campaign trail as the two were pursuing the Democratic nomination for president? Not least of which who is most ready to answer that "3 a.m. phone call?"
“We share a view that America needs to be safe and secure” by combining military power with diplomacy, and sharing the burden of fixing the world's ills with the rest of the international community, Obama told reporters. “I believe there’s no more effective advocate than Hillary Clinton for that well-rounded view for how we advance American interests.”
He added of his decision to pick her for the nation's top diplomatic post: “It was not a light-bulb moment."
"Obama makes it official: Hillary Clinton will be his Secretary of State," AP
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