Tag: Secretary of State
Posted on Fri Dec 21, 2012 at 01:16:43 PM EST
Tags: Secretary of State, John Kerry (all tags)
President Obama has announced that John Kerry will be his next Secretary of State.
He is expected to take office in January. Hillary is recovering from a concussion and the flu.
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Posted on Thu Dec 13, 2012 at 05:46:04 PM EST
Tags: Secretary of State, Susan Rice (all tags)
Susan Rice will not be the next Secretary of State. She has tendered a letter to Obama asking that her name be withdrawn from consideration.
Her withdrawal leaves Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as the leading candidate for the job. A senior administration official said “something strange would have to happen” for Kerry not to be the choice.
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Posted on Mon Dec 01, 2008 at 12:39:34 PM EST
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State (all tags)
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards lauds President-elect Obama's announcement naming Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State:
Senator Clinton understands that women's quality of life directly affects the major issues confronting the globe: national security, environmental sustainability, and global poverty.
In a speech that, by the standards of the Bush administration, sounds positively radical, Clinton addressed the Cairo Plus Five Forum at the Hague in 1999, saying,
"Women's reproductive health and empowerment are critical to a nation's sustainability and growth ... we now know that no nation can hope to succeed in the global economy of the 21st century if half of its people lack the opportunity and the right to make the most of their God-given potential. No nation can move forward when its women and children are trapped in endless cycles of poverty; when they have inadequate health care, poor access to family planning, limited education."
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