Hillary Clinton As Secretary Of Defense? Why It Should Not Happen

Joe Klein: Why Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Defense Secretary

The most daunting piece of real estate in modern American politics is any podium right after Bill Clinton has relinquished it. The guy is on fire these days, freed from the constraints of elective office and the shackles of the prepared text. And so no one who attended the memorial service for master diplomat Richard Holbrooke envied the lot of Hillary Clinton, who had to follow her husband to the podium and conclude a program that Holbrooke -- a fervent connoisseur of speechifying, especially about himself -- would have loved. She had to do this jet-lagged out of her skull, having just returned from an intense six-day swirl through the Middle East, and after delivering a monster speech about China that morning at the State Department.

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