Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State was twice concluded with a recommendation of no charges, a recommendation that was followed by the Justice Department, but according to Clinton herself, the emails matter and the way in which it would not go away contributed to her electoral defeat. Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served as the 67th United States Secretary of State, under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013, overseeing the department that conducted the Foreign policy of Barack Obama. She was preceded in office by Condoleezza Rice, and succeeded by John Kerry. She is also the only former First Lady of
Secretary of state State Secretary cannot attend a Council of State and the only minister is constitutionally responsible for all the "statssekretær"'s descions in office. In Portugal, a secretary of State (Portuguese: "secretário de Estado", masculine; "secretária de Estado", feminine; "secretários de Estado", plural) is a junior minister, of intermediate rank between that of cabinet minister and that of under-secretary of State. Although members of the Government, the secretaries of State do not usually participate in the Council of Ministers, unless summoned for certain meetings and, in those cases, without right to vote. Until the reorganization of the Portuguese Public Administration structure in