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On 1 December 2008 Obama announced the appointment of Hillary Clinton as [[Secretary of State]], succeeding [[Condoleezza Rice]] in January 2009.  

On 1 December 2008 Obama announced the appointment of Hillary Clinton as [[Secretary of State]], succeeding [[Condoleezza Rice]] in January 2009.  

Clinton's first assignment was to travel to [[China]] and convince them to purchase [[U.S. Treasury]] obligations to finance Obama’s  [[stimulus]] package.<ref>AFP (February 22, 2009).  [http://www.warandpeace.ru/en/news/view/32887/ "Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt"]. Reprinted at War and Peace website.</ref>  The veto-proof Democratic Congress voted to add $4.5 trillion to the [[national debt]] for "jobs creation" which, by the end of her tenure four years later, added a paltry 1.3 million jobs.<ref>Total Nonfarm Payrolls of All Employees in the United States stood at 133,977,000 in January of 2009; by January of 2013 when Clinton left office the number stood at 135,293,000, an increase of 1,316,000 jobs, or a cost of $3.4 million ''per job''. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.</ref>  Clinton told Chinese leaders that the [[Obama administration]] considered [[human rights]] secondary to economic wellbeing.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4735087/Hillary-Clinton-Chinese-human-rights-secondary-to-economic-survival.html Hillary Clinton: Chinese human rights secondary to economic survival,] Richard Spencer, ''London Telegraph,'' 20 Feb 2009.</ref>  

Clinton's first assignment was to travel to [[China]] and convince them to purchase [[U.S. Treasury]] obligations to finance Obama’s  [[stimulus]] package.<ref>AFP (February 22, 2009).  [http://www.warandpeace.ru/en/news/view/32887/ "Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt"]. Reprinted at War and Peace website.</ref>  The veto-proof Democratic Congress voted to add $4.5 trillion to the [[national debt]] for "jobs creation" which, by the end of her tenure four years later, added a paltry 1.3 million jobs.<ref>Total Nonfarm Payrolls of All Employees in the United States stood at 133,977,000 in January of 2009; by January of 2013 when Clinton left office the number stood at 135,293,000, an increase of 1,316,000 jobs, or a cost of $3.4 million ''per job''. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.</ref>  Clinton told Chinese leaders that the [[Obama administration]] considered [[human rights]] secondary to economic well-being.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4735087/Hillary-Clinton-Chinese-human-rights-secondary-to-economic-survival.html Hillary Clinton: Chinese human rights secondary to economic survival,] Richard Spencer, ''London Telegraph,'' 20 Feb 2009.</ref>  

===Foreign Policy===

===Foreign Policy===