Sec. Rice Hosts Hillary Clinton for Dinner
EmailABC News’ Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Rice hosted Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton for dinner at her Watergate apartment last night.
The two met one-on-one for 2 hours and dined on sea bass, wild rice, mushroom soup, and a fruit dessert.
"It was a healthy meal," Rice’s spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. He added that Rice didn’t cook the meal herself.
McCormack said this was an opportunity for Rice to provide Clinton with advice in private.
He wouldn’t reveal specifics of their conversation, but said they spoke "generally" about policy, challenges and opportunities, what the Secretary of State job entails, and how to manage the department.
He said it was probably the first of several meetings between the two, but added nothing else is on the schedule for now.
Yesterday, Clinton made her first trip to the State Department since being tapped by President-elect Barack Obama to be his Secretary of State.
State Department officials said Clinton was at Foggy Bottom to meet with the Obama transition team, which has been operating out of 5,300 square-foot of office space inside the State Department since shortly after election day.
ABC News’ Richard Coolidge contributed to this report.
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good lets get to work.
Posted by: rachel | December 9, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm
A former Illinois bank official, now claiming whistleblower status, says bank officials replaced a loan reappraisal that he prepared for a Chicago property that was purchased by the wife of now-convicted felon Tony Rezko, part of which was later sold to next-door neighbor Barack Obama.
In a complaint filed Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Kenneth J. Connor said that his reappraisal of Rita Rezko’s property was replaced with a higher one and that he was fired when he questioned the document.
Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, Barack Obama. That’s the Chicago Way!
Posted by: Hope and Change from Crook County, Illinois | December 9, 2008, 12:23 pm 12:23 pm
Got to give KUDOS to the Bush administration. THIS is how it is supposed to be done. They have set a much better example than many of those right/left extreme bloggers–especially those in hysteria over a birth certificate, that it is about THE UNITED STATES and not about partisan politics.
As Rachel posted:
Good! Now let’s get to work!
Posted by: FS | December 9, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
…..and what has that to do with the dinner?
Posted by: JDL | December 9, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm
In a move to reassert Congressional independence at the start of the new presidential administration, the vice president will be barred from joining weekly internal Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Las Vegas Sun.
Reid’s decision to exclude Vice President-elect Joe Biden from the Senate arena where he spent most of his adult life is intended to restore constitutional checks and balances that tilted heavily toward the executive branch during the Bush presidency.
Posted by: Congress with 14% approval rating bars VP with 79% transition approval | December 9, 2008, 2:46 pm 2:46 pm
Hope and Change: your guy started an unnecessary war and 4000 of our young people are dead and thousands maimed for life. Give it a break. We suggest you go to Idaho and take a hike to Larry Craig’s cabin for some R&R.
Posted by: Steve from Danville | December 9, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
Hey, Steve from Danville, just keep on mindlessly bleating:
“Hope and Change!”
“Yes We Can!”
“Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad!”
like the rest of the Obama sheeple.
Posted by: Dissent is Patriotic...until January 20th | December 9, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm
Yeah, and I guess selling Senate seats is patriotic, too.
Posted by: Grand Old Party | December 9, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm
The Independent Counsel to investigate Barack Obama’s role in the Blagojevich Senate seat scandal might just be sworn in….before Barack Obama is.
Posted by: carl | December 9, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm
More Democrat women can relate to Hillary and Rice than Hillary and Palin. Why anyone ever thought that the Hillary supporters would support a McCain/Palin ticket was beyond me. Palin is far to the right, it’s astounding. I actually like Rice and think she’s extremely intelligent. Something I can’t say about Gov. Palin.
Posted by: Mitsy | December 9, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm
It is extraordinary, yet not surprising how ABC avoids posting any story about the Blago scandal on this site.
I guess they want to avoid such a “distraction” as uncomfortable as this is for Obama and the Democratic party. However, Sarah Palin’s wardrobe and tanning bed are much more important stories, in the eyes of ABC.
Posted by: carl | December 10, 2008, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
YOU INVITE ME TO MAKE A COMMENT AND THEY REFUSE IT FOR SOME REASON
THANKS
ERNEST
Posted by: ernest johnson | December 10, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm