Three Whigs wanted to be nominated: President Millard Fillmore, Secretary of State Daniel Webster and General Winfield Scott.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

Lincoln chose William Seward as secretary of state, Salmon Chase as Treasury secretary, Gideon Welles as Navy secretary and Montgomery Blair as postmaster general.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

She has never been a judge, but has served as governor and attorney general of the state of Arizona.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

and Barak,a former general and army chief of staff, says Israel is a state of law and lawbreakers will be punished.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

The winner will face Democrat Jerry Brown, the state attorney general and former governor, in the November election.

VOA: standard.2010.06.08

Secretary Napolitano, a former governor and attorney general in the southwestern border state of Arizona, says prosecuting drug criminals is a more effective strategy than building border walls.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Briefing reporters here, State Department Spokesman Ian Kelly said the "annual exercise" in the General Assembly obscures the fact that the United States is a leading source of food and humanitarian relief aid to Cuba.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03