âused to express mild disappointment, gentle entreaty, or real or mock sympathy or sentiment.
The Secretary carries out the President's foreign policies through the State Department, which includes the Foreign Service, Civil Service, and U.S. Agency for International Development. On February 1, 2013, John Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State of the United States.
Hillary Rodham Clinton served as United States Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the foreign policy of the Obama administration.She was preceded in office by Condoleezza Rice, and succeeded by John Kerry.t the start of her tenure, Obama and Clinton announced several high-profile special envoys to trouble spots in the world, including former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell as Mideast envoy and Richard Holbrooke as envoy to South Asia and Afghanistan.