Obama may nominate Hillary as Secy of State on Monday

Jones officially agreed to take the job in the past few days after much contemplation, the officials were quoted as saying.

The names of the three were doing the rounds in the recent weeks and it was almost certain that they would get the posts.

In fact, retiring Republican Senator John Warner, a veteran member of the Armed Services Committee, has already released a statement, praising all three nominees before they were even named, the report said.

“The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead Obama’s ‘national security team’ instills great confidence at home and abroad and further strengthens the growing respect for the President-elect’s courage and ability to exercise sound judgement in selecting the ‘best and the brightest’ to implement our nation’s security policies,” Warner was quoted as saying by CNN.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported that Hillary’s husband, former president Bill Clinton, has agreed to make public 200,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation as part of an agreement with Obama’s transition team designed to allow his wife to be named secretary of state.

Quoting sources familiar with the arrangement, it said the former president has also agreed to allow the State Department and, potentially, the White House to vet his personal business interests and speeches in order to avoid potential conflicts of interest.

The former first lady was once a bitter rival of 47-year-old Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

She withdrew from the race five months before the November 4 polls after a neck-and-neck contest with Obama.