Obama gives hints about key administration posts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Barack Obama's transition team dropped broad hints Wednesday about who will fill a raft of top posts in his administration, naming teams of aides to develop policies in key areas. |
Sen. Clinton weighing secretary of state post (The Pantagraph)
UPDATED 3:40 p.m. CHICAGO -- Associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday the former first lady is weighing whether to leave the Senate and become secretary of state in the Obama administration, a job they say she believes is hers if she wants it. | Who's in the running for Obama administration jobs |
Obama names Clinton aide W.H. counsel (Moldova.org)
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced key staff appointments Tuesday, including Clinton administration alumnus Gregory Craig as White House counsel. David Axelrod, who managed Obama's 2004 Senate campaign and served as chief strategist this year, was named senior adviser to the president. Axelrod, who left his job as a political writer for the Chicago Tribune in 1984 to manage Paul Simon's ... |
Obama signals priority with Daschle pick (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary on Wednesday, while former President Bill Clinton took steps to help secure his wife the nation's top diplomatic job. |
Sources: Obama picks Daschle to head HHS (CNN)
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Sen. Tom Daschle to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the former Senate majority leader has indicated he wants the job, three sources close to the transition told CNN Wednesday. |
Spitzer case prosecutor Michael Garcia leaving job (AP via Yahoo! News)
A high-profile federal prosecutor — whose office is investigating Wall Street and who toppled New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer — told superiors at the Justice Department on Monday that he is leaving his job. |
Interim Assistant Secretary Neel Kashkari Remarks on Implementation of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (United States Department of the Treasury)
Washington- Good afternoon. Thank you, Faith, for that kind introduction. I have really enjoyed working with you over the past year. |
Obama names Clinton aide W.H. counsel (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama announced key staff appointments Tuesday, including Clinton administration alumnus Gregory Craig as White House counsel. |
Bill Clinton may give up foreign income for wife's State job (The Virginian-Pilot)
By MIKE ALLEN & GLENN THRUSH, POLITICO Negotiations between the Clintons and President-elect Obama’s transition team are rapidly moving toward a formal offer of secretary of State for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), with both sides expecting a formal announcement in the next seven days, according to numerous officials who are involved. |
Douglas campaign manager becomes deputy chief (Boston Globe)
The campaign manager of Gov. Jim Douglas's re-election victory is getting a new job. Dennise Casey has been appointed to be the governor's deputy chief of staff. |
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