Secretary Clinton announced the trip in Jerusalem earlier this week during her first visit to the Middle East as America's top diplomat.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

He was the first black deputy Secretary of State in the administration of President John F.Kennedy.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

America's top diplomat,Hillary Clinton, made her first foreign trip as secretary of state this week.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

First on the list -- after the vice president -- was the secretary of state.

VOA: special.2010.05.06

Business Improved. Miss Cleveland made her secretary the company's first director of public relations.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

But first they have to get past his secretary.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The first was former Treasury Secretary William McAdoo.

VOA: special.2011.01.27

This was the first meeting of Mr.Obama's full cabinet, after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took office on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Defense officials say the secretary's first stop,Tokyo, will be partly an opportunity to get to know Japan's new leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

Secretary Clinton's first stop will be in Kenya, where she is expected to address the U.S.-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum in Nairobi.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

In his first appearance before the UN Human Rights Council representing the United States, U.S.Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner called the report deeply flawed.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

This is Clinton's fourth visit to Afghanistan and first as U.S.Secretary of State.

VOA: standard.2009.11.18

Former U.S.Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has just finished chairing a team that did a first draft of the Concept, and presented it to NATO officials in May.

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

In his first Washington address since assuming NATO leadership last month, Secretary-General Rasmussen said he understands America's desire to see its NATO allies commit more troops and resources to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The overseas trip is the first by Secretary of State since she fractured her elbow in a fall last month, and it includes an ambitious agenda in India, where she aims to solidify a strategic partnership begun with the 2005 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation accord.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

And we've got to earn their trust," The president spoke at the end of his first formal meeting with all of the members of his Cabinet - except for Health and Human Services Secretary-designee Kathleen Sebelius who is awaiting Senate confirmation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

But Secretary Gates on the first visit to Tokyo by a senior U.S.official since the new Japanese government took office - says he will remind the new Japanese leaders that Afghanistan is a NATO and coalition effort and that Japan's refueling mission did more to help other countries than it did to help the United States directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20