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Minnesota: US President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday.
Obama will name the New York senator to his national security team at a news conference in Chicago, Democratic officials said Saturday.
They requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly for the transition team.
The Clinton pick was an extraordinary gesture of goodwill after a year in which the two rivals competed for the Democratic nomination in a long, bitter primary battle.
Advisers said Obama had for several months envisioned Clinton as his top diplomat, and he invited her to Chicago to discuss the job shortly after the November 4 election.
Clinton was said to be interested and then to waver, concerned about relinquishing her Senate seat and the political independence it conferred.
Those concerns were largely ameliorated after Obama assured her she would be able to choose a staff and have direct access to him, advisers said.
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