Secretary of state him on a vote of 94–3. On February 1, 2013, Hillary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State and John Kerry was sworn in as the 68th Secretary of State. On February 1, 2017, Rex Wayne Tillerson was sworn in as the 69th United States Secretary of State. His term ended on March 13, 2018, when being fired by President Trump. In most of the individual states of the United States, the Secretary of State is an administrative officer responsible for certain governmental functions. The specific powers and duties of this office depend on the constitution and laws of the particular
Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State official said, "She's the first secretary who's also been a global rock star. It's allowed her to raise issues on the global agenda in a way that no one before her has been able to do." The divisions between Obama and Clinton that many observers had originally predicted, never happened. Indeed, a writer for "The New York Times Magazine" declared that "Obama and Clinton have instead led the least discordant national-security team in decades, despite enormous challenges on almost every front." In part, this was because Obama and Clinton both approached foreign policy as a largely non-ideological, pragmatic exercise. Nevertheless,