who was the secretary of state when richard nixon was president?
Henry Kissinger
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 The Nixon administration skirted the Ineligibility Clause during its first year , when Nixon named Representative Donald Rumsfeld as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969 . Although the salary for that office had been increased to $ 42 @,@ 500 during Rumsfeld 's term in Congress , Rumsfeld was not paid a salary for the position . Rather , Rumsfeld was dually employed as Assistant to the President at the same $ 42 @,@ 500 salary , a position presumably outside the scope of the Clause . 

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 Kennan 's influence rapidly decreased when Dean Acheson became Secretary of State , succeeding the ailing George Marshall during 1949 and 1950 . Acheson did not regard the Soviet " threat " as chiefly political , and he saw the Berlin blockade starting during June 1948 , the first Soviet test of a nuclear weapon during August 1949 , the Communist revolution in China a month later , and the beginning of the Korean War during June 1950 as evidence . Truman and Acheson decided to delineate the Western sphere of influence and to create a system of alliances . 

neutral
 President Dwight D. Eisenhower attempted to clarify procedures through a signed agreement with Vice President Richard Nixon , drafted by Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr .. However , this agreement did not have the authority of a constitutional amendment . 

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 Secretary of State James F. Byrnes , who a year earlier had told physicist Leo Szilard that a public demonstration of the bomb might make the Soviet Union " more manageable " in Europe , now argued the opposite : that further display of U.S. nuclear power could harden the Soviet Union 's position against acceptance of the Acheson – Lilienthal Plan , which discussed possible methods for the international control of nuclear weapons and the avoidance of future nuclear warfare . At a March 22 cabinet meeting he said , " from the standpoint of international relations it would be very helpful if the test could be postponed or never held at all . " He prevailed on Truman to postpone the first test for six weeks , from May 15 to July 1 . For public consumption , the postponement was explained as an opportunity for more Congressional observers to attend during their summer recess . 

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 On December 1 , 2008 , President @-@ elect Barack Obama announced his choice of Hillary Clinton , the junior U.S. Senator from New York , as Secretary of State . This began a two @-@ month search process to fill her vacant Senate seat . Upon a Senate vacancy , under New York law , the Governor appoints a replacement . A special election was held in 2010 , for the remainder of the full term , ending in January 2013 . 
