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Obama decides on Clinton, aides say
Tribune Washington BureauPresident-elect Barack Obama has settled on former campaign rival Hillary Clinton to be secretary of state after a high-stakes courtship that is expected to lead to a formal announcement after the Thanksgiving holiday, aides to both said. After an...Tags: Hillary Clinton, 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Parliament
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Brown considered for VA chief
Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, a rising star in Maryland politics, appears to be under serious consideration for secretary of veterans affairs in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, according to a news account published yesterday. Brown, an Iraq war...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Barack Obama, Primaries
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Car Show In Hartford Is An Oasis In Tough Times
The Hartford CourantThe Beach Boys played overhead as fleets of shiny cars gleamed inside the Connecticut Convention Center Friday — a carefree setting offering little hint of the U.S. auto industry's accelerating free-fall. Among the hundreds of cars on display at...Tags: Barack Obama, Automotive Equipment, Bankruptcy, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Financially Distressed Companies
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Farewell to woman of steel
Of The Associated PressCatherine Baker Knoll, Pennsylvania's first female lieutenant governor, was a tough-as-steel woman who broke barriers and defied odds, and encouraged others to do the same, Sen. Hillary Clinton told a Capitol memorial ceremony Friday. ''I respected and...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Primaries, Defense, Death and Dying, People
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Obama's Cabinet is shaping up
President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration. Former President George H.W. Bush made his first Cabinet pick the day after his election in 1988, but former President Bill Clinton did not name any...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Heads of State, Eric Holder, Federal Reserve
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Obama moves quickly to fill Cabinet slots, with plans to tap Geithner as treasury secretary
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ President-elect Barack Obama has moved with unusual speed to select officials for his administration, and senior Democratic officials say he intends to name Timothy Geithner as his treasury secretary as soon as Monday. It was not...Tags: 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, John Podesta, Parliament, The White House, Federal Reserve
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It's decided: Barack Obama picks Hillary Clinton for secretary of State
President-elect Barack Obama has settled on former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of State, following a high-stakes courtship that is expected to lead to a formal announcement after the Thanksgiving holiday, aides to both said.
After an...Tags: 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Imperial and Royal Matters, John Kerry, Parliament, Charity
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Obama's administration takes shape
President-elect Barack Obama was said to be very close to offering top positions to others in addition to Clinton and Geithner. Hillary Rodham Clinton | Secretary of State Age: 61 Current job: U.S. senator from New York, since 2001 Previous jobs:...Tags: University of Virginia, Business Enterprises, The White House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Federal Reserve
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Mexico's insular Mennonites under siege, overlooked
Tribune correspondentALVARO OBREGON, Mexico—With their blond hair and blue eyes, the Mennonites are a conspicuous but largely silent population in this northern Mexico town. Earlier this month , their silence was a defiant message of frustration and fear. The...Tags: Film Festivals, Christianity, Agricultural Research and Technology, Mennonite, Defense
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Collaboration Is A Key To Health Care Reform
I'm not sure how I keep getting myself into this, but I was the master of ceremonies at another symposium on health care reform this week. That's twice in two years. What I know about health care reform can fit into a thimble. But the issue is...Tags: AFSCME, Jodi Rell, Jonathan Harris, Society, West Hartford
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Paterson's political chess game gets underway
dan.janison@newsday.comFor Gov. David A. Paterson, there is more at stake than the choice of a U.S. senator to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton pending a special election in 2010; there is also a statewide Democratic Party ticket to be shaped. If Clinton resigns for the U.S....Tags: Charles B. Rangel, Hillary Clinton, Parliament, Local Elections, Democratic Party
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Obama plans to tap Geithner for Treasury post
President-elect Barack Obama picked Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his Treasury secretary, with Lawrence Summers getting a senior White House role, a Democratic aide said Friday. Obama also is likely to nominate New...Tags: International Relations, John F. Kennedy Assassination, American International Group, Lawrence, Parliament
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