In a stunning repudiation of all received wisdom, Barack Obama has, apparently, offered the State Department to his erstwhile primary opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton. As the senior cabinet post, the Secretary of State is the director and coordinator of America's vast foreign service, the number two face, behind the President, that the rest of the world will associate with the United States, as well as fourth in line to the succession to the Presidency.
At first blush it seems counter-intuitive to...
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