Hillary Clinton Says She Has No Interest in Presidential Run

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

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By Julianna Goldman and Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Oct. 12 -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is retiring her presidential ambitions.

Clinton, a former senator from New York and the wife of former President Bill Clinton, answered with an unequivocal “No” when asked on NBC’s “Today” show whether she would ever run for president again.

She was President Barack Obama’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, and came closer than any woman to winning a major party presidential nomination. She joined Obama’s cabinet after he won the general election.

Being secretary of state is “a great job,” she said in a recorded interview with the program that was broadcast today. “And I’m looking forward to retirement at some point,” said Clinton.

The next presidential election is in 2012 and Obama is likely to seek a second term. Clinton would be 69 at the time of the 2016 presidential election.

The contest between Clinton and Obama was one of the closest nomination battles in U.S. history and drew 36 million voters to Democratic primaries and caucuses. The two candidates were separated by fewer than 100,000 votes at the end.

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