The result would be continued rule by a secretary of state sent from London.
He brings the perspective of having been the chief architect of foreign policy as a Secretary of State.
Kim answers: Maybe, but she's also very tired and it's unusual for a Secretary of State to serve two terms.
No one could remember a secretary of state, the highest post in the cabinet, resigning on a matter of principle.
An appointed job, involving a stint in foreign policy, might position him to be a secretary of state or attorney-general.
That is why some analysts say he needs to tap a secretary of state who knows the Curia well enough to fix it.
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That may be why one future colleague in Cardiff Bay rued the idea of a Secretary of State who "shows contempt for the Assembly".
But who studies the works of Christian Archibald Herter, also a secretary of state under Eisenhower, and William P Rogers, who preceded Kissinger under Nixon?
For a secretary of state to ascend to the throne of St Peter is rare: the only example since 1667 was Pius XII, in 1939.
Conservative peer Lord Newton raised the issue of parliamentary scrutiny, arguing that the House of Commons would not accept a secretary of state saying "nothing to do with me, Guv".
Insiders say a Secretary of State Kerry would want to play a big role in shaping Mideast policy and try to help solve some intractable issues, including delving heavily into the peace process.
This has not been the recent practice, and it means that Presidents could not wait, say, until a recess in December to appoint a controversial replacement for a Secretary of State who resigned in October.
But Sir Michael told Tuesday's press conference it was "surprising that a secretary of state who has just started a public consultation exercise should give the impression that he has already made his mind up so firmly".
"The public deserves a secretary of state on whom they can rely to be clear about what's going on, to take responsibility for his department and to provide a safe, reliable and affordable public transport system, " he said.
So in other words, when we made those first announcements there were questions raised -- and valid questions -- about whether it was too soon to send a Secretary of State, whether it was too soon to take some of these steps.
Whether such leverage is sufficient to persuade the Obama administration, preoccupied with a range of competing domestic and international challenges, to depart from a policy of "strategic patience" is still unclear, even allowing for the appointment of a new secretary of state - John Kerry - who reportedly favours a more engagement-centred approach to North Korea.
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"That is going to be the difference, I think, between John Kerry being a good secretary of state and ... truly be a consequential, if not great, secretary of state, " Miller said.
Why do you think Secretary of State Powell -and also as a former secretary of state he's not been that vocal in public?
Powell, a former secretary of state for President Bush as well as a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said Sunday he decided, in part, to back Obama because he was troubled by the rightward direction the Republican party had taken in recent years.
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Scottish Secretary Michael Moore said Mr Millan was "a distinguished secretary of state who served his country in both Scottish and European politics and has a lasting legacy".
Dutschke has registered several business ventures with state officials, all of which appear to be closed, according to a Mississippi Secretary of State database.
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Once he leaves the government, Powell is on his way to being the next Henry Kissinger, a former secretary of state widely regarded as a wise man on world affairs.
The Americans have submitted a panel under the chairmanship of George Mitchell, the former American senator who led the mediation effort in Northern Ireland (the Palestinians objected to the proposed chairmanship of Warren Christopher, a former secretary of state).
Just over a year ago in May 2007, Senator Christopher Dodd, in his capacity as a senior Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with a laundry list of complaints about paramilitary and narco-trafficker infiltration of the Colombian government.
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Sinn Fein for its part believes that it's carried out it's obligations under the Good Friday agreement and is angered at what it sees as a British Secretary of State acting in collusion with a unionist party.
Condoleezza Rice, provost of Stanford University in California, has been mentioned as a possible secretary of state should the Republicans win the U.S. presidential election.
As part of his duties, Coughlin chaired the search committee that chose a new Secretary of State to replace Brewer.
If she could subordinate her ambition to the service of her new president and her country, then she could make a fine secretary of state.
Zoellick, currently vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, has been U.S. trade representative and was a deputy secretary of state under Rice.
The programme quoted Lord Carrington, a former British foreign secretary and James Baker, a former American secretary of state, among others.
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