Obama selects Clinton, Gates for cabinet

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

CHICAGO -- Barack Obama announced a national security team Monday headed by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who fought him for the presidency, and Robert Gates, the man who has been running two wars for President Bush -- fitting choices by a president-elect who declared he wanted "strong personalities and strong opinions."

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