Nov 21st, 2008 · If Sen. Hillary Clinton is to take a seat in the Obama Cabinet, the two former rivals will have to find a way to keep their policy disputes behind closed doors. Being close to the president is crucial to being an effective secretary of state.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne note that the president-elect is putting together a team of former rivals with common ties to President Clinton's administration and two Ivy League pillars.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Sen. Hillary Clinton has agreed to be President-elect Obama's nominee for secretary of state; New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner is in line to be treasury secretary; and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is up for the top job at Commerce.
Nov 21st, 2008 · After another volatile week on Wall Street, Robert Siegel checks in with Ted Weisberg, a floor trader on the New York Stock Exchange. Weisberg is the president of Seaport Securities.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Word of Cabinet offers by President-elect Obama flew fast and furious Friday afternoon: Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for secretary of state, Gov. Bill Richardson (D-NM) for commerce secretary and New York Federal Reserve President Tim Geithner for secretary of the Treasury.
Nov 21st, 2008 · We examine the leaked choices president-elect Obama made for his cabinet and analyst Juan Williams offers some advice to Sen. Hillary Clinton who is on the shortlist for Secretary of State.
Nov 21st, 2008 · As Barack Obama prepares to become the country's 44th president, much of his political philosophy seems influenced by the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, who took office as the 16th U.S. president in 1861. Columbia University historian Eric Foner and Duke University professor Mark Anthony Neal discuss what the two leaders have in common — both personally and politically — and the implications of Obama's modern-day application of Lincoln's ideals.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Think about that phrase in the Constitution - about how the President must be a natural-born American. If similar laws apply to the nations of central Asia, we may have to ask if a newborn baby will be entitled to run for president of Kazakhstan. A Swedish woman was on a flight over the Asian country when she gave birth. Two doctors and two nurses were on board the 11-hour flight. The baby's fine, born at 35,000 feet.