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Article: Obama may give Clinton purview in area where they differed most
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 18, 2008
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If President-elect Barack Obama taps Senator Hillary Clinton to
be his secretary of state, he would be giving her oversight of an
area where the two former rivals diverged sharply during their
prolonged primary battle: foreign policy.
From their first clashes in the summer of 2007 through spring
this year, Obama and Clinton fought bitterly over who had a deeper
understanding of the world, exchanging sharp words over their
international experience and their views on diplomacy, military
strikes against terrorists, the right approach toward Iran, and the
genesis of the Iraq war.
It is the one arena in which Obama and Clinton articulated
significantly different visions. On a host of other issues ...