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secretary of state, hillary clinton, that is a reminder of how strange it is that cabinet jobs are sort of expected to all turn over when a president earns a secretary term. big picture. if you are a great secretary of transportation you are doing a fine job running the agriculture department for the nation, why should you leave that job when the president who picked you for that job just got reelected to stay in his job for another four years? it s weird, right, the turnover for the second term. occasionally, people do stay on for a second term or part of a second term. mostly, because either they are tired or because it is tradition. cabinet secretaries move on and frankly, personnel changes at these top echelons at the u.s. government even when these people are good at their jobs, change in the key policy roles does give a chance to put fresh eyes on old problems. that s not just true for the cabinet but true throughout. even before his name was caught up in the david petraeus affai

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