Team Obama: Where are they now?

Matt Rourke / Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the highest-profile departure from the White House, left shortly after President Obama's second inauguration. Clinton's final months were occupied by illness and controversy over her handling of the response to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, but her popularity remains high as anticipation builds for a 2016 presidential run.

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