WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama today named a one-time rival as well as the current defense secretary to top positions in his new administration.
During a news conference in Chicago, he described his advisers as the "team is what we need to create a new direction in national security."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), who was Obama's rival in the often bitter fight for the Democratic nomination for president, was nominated to be secretary of state. She said the job will be "a difficult and exciting adventure."
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has held the job since January 2007, will remain in that role, fulfilling Obama's promise to have a bipartisan administration.
The other appointees named are: Eric Holder for attorney general, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for secretary of homeland security, Susan Rice for Ambassador to the UN and General James Jones, USMC (Ret) for national security adviser.
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