MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
By Michael D. Scher, The Caucus Blog, @ New York Times, March 16, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said decisively on Wednesday that she would not serve in a second term if President Obama is re-elected and repeated her assertion that she would not run for president in 2012 or 2016.
Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer whether she would serve a second four-year stint as secretary of state, Ms. Clinton was blunt. “No,” she said, according to a transcript on the network’s Web site.
“Would you like to serve as secretary of defense?” Mr. Blitzer asked.
“No,” she responded.
“Would you like to be vice president of the United States?”
“No.”
“Would you like to be president of the United States?”
“No.”....