U.S. President-elect Barack Obama (C) presents his choices for his newly formed Economic Recovery Board during a news conference in Chicago November 26, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect
Barack Obama will announce his national security team, including Hillary Clinton
as secretary of state, at an event Monday morning, U.S. media and Democratic
sources said Sunday.
The announcement will be made at a press conference
in Chicago, Illinois, around 10:40 a.m. eastern time (1540 GMT) of Dec. 1.
Obama is also expected to finally confirm that he is
keeping Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his current post.
He plans to name retired Marine Gen. Jim Jones as his
national security adviser at the White House.
Two sources close to the president-elect's team said
Obama will also nominate Susan Rice as United Nations ambassador, Arizona Gov.
Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary, and Eric Holder as attorney
general.
Retiring Republican John Warner, a veteran member of
the Senate Armed Services Committee, released a statement Saturday night
praising Obama's planned announcement.
"The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead
Obama's 'national security team' instills great confidence at home and abroad;
and, further strengthens the growing respect for the president-elect's courage
and ability to exercise sound judgment in selecting the 'best and the brightest'
to implement our nation's security policies," Warner said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama
will have nearly named his entire cabinet by Christmas, a top Obama aide said
Friday.
John Podesta, a co-chair of the
Obama transition team, told Bloomberg News that "virtually the whole cabinet"
would be in place by the end of the year.
Earlier this week, Obama announced his nomination of New York Fed chairman
Timothy Geithner to be treasury secretary. Full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S.
President-elect Barack Obama naming, or at least leaking to the press, his
cabinet picks faster than nearly all of his predecessors, CNN reported Tuesday.
"If we do not act swiftly
and boldly, most experts believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year,"
Obama said Monday, when he nominated Timothy Geithner as next treasury
secretary. Full story
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) --
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is set to stay on in the top Pentagon job,
for at least the first year of the Obama administration, ABC News reported
Tuesday.
"It is a done deal," a source
close to the process was quoted as saying. Full story
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is
flanked by Council of Economic Advisors Director-designate Christina
Romer(L), National Economic Council Director-designate Lawrence Summers
(R) as he announces the members of his economic policy team during a news
conference in Chicago, November 24, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) --
With the economy in crisis, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled
his economic team pick to shore up financial markets and tackle the worst
financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1930s. Full story
CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on
Monday put University of California professor Christina Romer and his campaign
aide Melody Barnes on senior White House posts.
Romer was named Director of the
Council of Economic Advisors by Obama at a press conference in Chicago.
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