SecState is a very demanding job...Hillary has done great but I wouldn't be surprised to see her leave next year....I wonder if they might put Biden there if Obama is re-elected and pick an Obama successor for VP.....
Clinton wants off 'merry-go-round'
By: Jennifer Epstein
July 15, 2011 07:30 AM EDT
She’s in good health from yoga and exercise, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she’s tired by the “merry-go-round” of public life and ready to get off it for good at the end of President Barack Obama’s first term.
“I think that I am a pretty normal, average person, despite all of the hype,” Clinton said in an interview with the BBC conducted Thursday. “And I am very interested in spending time with my friends and my family and not being on the merry-go-round all the time.”
That, she said, is why she plans to “move on and return to private life at the end of what will be a very intense period of activity and work in the next 18 months.”
Clinton has made similar comments in several interviews this year, but this time they were unprompted, coming in response to a question about what the general public might not know about her.
Clinton said she never wakes up too tired to go to work, but instead says to herself, “I’m tired so I better get up and get going.”
“Every day is fascinating to me because I really don’t know what’s going to happen during the day,” she said. “I am very aware of how much energy this takes because, clearly, it’s a nonstop marathon. But let me knock on wood here, I have been lucky with health, stamina, and all that goes with it.”
Friends, she said, call and email her saying, “’Oh, my gosh, I saw you on television. You looked so tired.’ Which I send back saying, ‘Gee, thanks a lot.’”
“But I know, because if you work around the clock like we do, that’s just inevitable. So I do try to take some time, long weekends, take some deep breathing. I do exercise, yoga, those kinds of things. But no, I’m never tired about the work. It’s just the physical challenge.”
Meanwhile, Clinton is in Turkey Friday for a meeting about urging Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi to step down and planning for the country’s future without him in control. The United States and NATO allies are hoping to strengthen ties to the rebel National Transitional Council ahead of what’s increasingly seen as Qadhafi’s eventual departure. |
