Hillary Clinton To Step Down as US Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton will step down as U.S secretary of state in few months.The secretary has been honoured to serve as President Obama’s Secretary of State, and has loved every minute of leading this Department and
being part of the State family,’ Philippe Reines, a Clinton spokesman, said . He added: ‘She has said that she wants to ensure continuity.
Clinton who has decided to step down within ‘days’ of President Barack Obama’s second inauguration in January is expected by most Democrats to be a prelude for a White House run in 2016, when she will be 69years old.
The top candidate to replace her is believed to be Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Democratic presidential candidate in 2004 who lost to incumbent president , George W. Bush.