party's front runner from the state of new york, a seasoned politician with much experience, was william henry seward. but the party chose to pass over him in favor of a congressman from illinois with a reputation for soaring rhetoric and idealism, a man named abraham lincoln. he then goes and appoints seward as secretary of state. hillary lost out to a candidate from illinois, and she was voted secretary of state. it was once the rivalled architect, but now she serves as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and others that make up the imperial administration. the state department was once across the street from the white house, but as the white house staff grew, the department moved in the 1950s into its own building, happily named foggy bottom. the secretary of state who approved the move said distance wouldn't matter much since the secretary was bound to be the chief advisor to the president. it didn't turn out to be true, and over the last 40 years, often the secretary of state has been something of a figurehead while the national security advisor has become the personal strategist and chief

of his cabinet and people have often referred to the experience of abraham lincoln picking william henry seward. >> i think that in many ways the policies that president obama and i talked about during the campaign were maybe difference in degree, not kind. we have a world view that says america should be leading by example, not the -- i think my husband said actually, not the example of our power but the power of our example that we want to convey. and so when the president asked know consider this, i was personally very surprised. and i became more surprised when accounts of the campaign came out and said he had been thinking about it for some time. but i also believed that what i brought to the job, the real commitment that i had to being not just effective, but being part of a team that is effective, which the president knows, we served in the senate together, has really worked out better than anybody could have predicted. i think our personal relationship has certainly deepened and broadened over the course of the last six and a half months, the time we spend together, the difficult proble