This was the first meeting of Mr.Obama's full cabinet, after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took office on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Defense Secretary Robert Gates' has now visited Iraq 10 times since he took office in 2006, and this is his second since the June 30 U.S.pullout from Iraqi towns and cities.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Secretary Clinton, who is visiting Jerusalem for the second time since President Barack Obama took office, will gauge Israel's willingness to compromise during her meetings with officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Mr.Obama discussed nuclear non-proliferation in the Oval Office Tuesday with former secretaries of state George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, as well as former Defense Secretary William Perry and Sam Nunn, former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

VOA: standard.2009.05.19

"I think that President Obama has taken very good steps immediately after he took office by appointing Senator Mitchell as a personal envoy, and he went there several times, and Secretary Clinton also went to the region, so we are seeing more than goodwill,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.24