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First female secretary of state
Nominated by President Clinton and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate, Madeleine Albright was sworn in as the first female secretary of state, making her the highest ranking woman ever in United States government.
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Emancipation Proclamation draft
Abraham Lincoln revealed to his Cabinet his plans to issue an emancipation proclamation and submitted a draft of the document to them. Secretary of State William H. Seward advised Lincoln to wait to issue the proclamation until after a Union military success to avoid it being seen as a desperate measure. Lincoln heeded Seward’s advice, putting the proclamation away until after the Union victory at Antietam in September.
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Department of Energy created
President Jimmy Carter, a proponent of conservation, signed an act that created the Department of Energy, a Cabinet-level agency responsible for national energy policy.
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Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld (1932– ) was the US secretary of defense under President George W. Bush. He was largely responsible for the early handling of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Before serving in the Bush administration, Rumsfeld worked as a private businessman and served in Congress and under Presidents Nixon and Ford. Though he earned praise for ending the regime of Saddam Hussein, public opinion turned against Rumsfeld as US military involvement in the Middle East was prolonged and the Abu...
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton (1947– ) is the US secretary of state and a former First Lady and US senator. Hillary Rodham grew up in suburban Illinois and attended Wellesley before earning a law degree at Yale. There she met Bill Clinton, whom she married in 1975. While Bill served as governor of Arkansas, Hillary ran a successful law practice and worked on issues affecting children and the disadvantaged. After Bill’s election to the presidency in 1992, the Clintons set out to reform health care. Bill appointed Hillary head of the Task Force on National...