Sen. Clinton eyed as Secretary of State

Sen. Hillary Clinton gets herself in as the front runner to be the next Secretary of State in the Obama Administration. Hillary Rodham Clinton emerged as a top contender to be secretary of State. Clinton, 61, has extensive foreign policy experience, having travelled widely when her husband Bill was president from 1993 to 2001, and from her time in the Senate, where she serves on the Armed Services Committee. Obama is weighing other prominent elected officials for the post of the nation's top diplomat, but has zeroed in on the former first lady and runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination. Other candidates for secretary of State include Senator John Kerry, a former presidential candidate, former US representative to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson; Republican Senator Richard Lugar, whom Obama admires, has made clear he does not want to serve in the administration and Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, a moderate on foreign policy, is also said to be in the mix for a national security job after touring Iraq and Afghanistan with Obama earlier this year.