Blake Hounshell thinks Mr Kerry has the potential to be "a great choice for Obama's second-term secretary of state", but for reasons I mostly don't share.
But Mr. Bush's second-term secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, is generally not viewed as having the success her unusually tight bond with the president might have engendered.
Since leaving government at the end of the Clinton administration, she has been a partner in an international consulting business with Madeleine K. Albright, Mr. Clinton's second-term secretary of state.
Obama considered nominating Rice as his second-term secretary of state but she withdrew amid the Republican criticism, saying she did not want her confirmation fight to be a distraction for the White House.
A first-term Secretary of State with one grand strategic vision wouldn't have matched the demands of the moment, which called for a fox, not a hedgehog.
Mr. Powell had a tumultuous tenure as President Bush's first-term secretary of state, when he was frequently undercut by Vice President Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, in the period before the Iraq war.
Hillary Clinton, Obama's first-term secretary of state, 2008 presidential rival and potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, gave an interview to the Atlantic excoriating Obama for not confronting Isis earlier.
Mr. Tyson and his son and future successor, John H. Tyson, were accused of helping to arrange illegal gifts to President Clinton's first-term secretary of agriculture, Mike Espy, including plane trips, lodging and football tickets, when his agency was considering tougher safety and inspection regulations affecting Tyson Foods.
After early missteps, Obama's second-term secretary of state, John Kerry, attempted to reignite peace talks in 2013, which ultimately failed in 2014.
And he returns the favor to his first-term secretary of state, repeatedly making pro-Hillary comments, especially in the aftermath of Sanders's big New Hampshire victory.
A whopping 71percentt of American voters want the next president to take a different approach than President Barack Obama's; Clinton served as his first-term secretary of state.
