WASHINGTON (AP) - Two former Clinton administration officials were named Tuesday to join the State Department in high posts when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state.James Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser under President Bill Clinton, was chosen as deputy secretary of state. Jacob J. Lew, who was Clinton's budget director, was named to oversee management and budget issues as co-deputy, a unique arrangement for the department.
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden also named Thomas E. Donilon, another Clinton administration veteran, to be deputy national security adviser. Antony Blinken, chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was named as Biden's national security adviser. Biden is the committee's outgoing chairman.