From The Seattle PI
By Helen Thomas

A woman’s place is apparently at the State Department.

Hillary Clinton will be the third woman to hold the coveted and demanding role when she becomes secretary of state in President-elect Barack Obama’s administration.

She will follow Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice in the prestigious diplomatic post.

Obama and Clinton are letting bygones be bygones after their bitter battle for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Hillary and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, both campaigned for Obama’s victory over Republican presidential nominee John McCain. But during their fight for the Democratic nomination, both Obama and Clinton said some nasty things about each other.

Obama said snidely that Clinton was “likeable enough,” and Clinton doubted that Obama would be able to deal with a major foreign policy crisis at 3 o’clock in the morning.

But all is apparently forgiven now.

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