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United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice withdraws from consideration for U.S. secretary of state in letter to President Obama, had Rice been nominated and confirmed she would have been the first Black Democrat, third Black and second Black female to hold the post, she is the first African- American ambassador to the United Nations

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United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice,  the first African-American to hold the post who earlier today withdrew  from consideration as U. S. secretary of state to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton in a letter to President Barack Obama who accepted it and said that Rice is an exemplary public servant subject to unfair attacks by Republican operatives.   By Kathy Wray Coleman, Publisher, Editor-n-Chief, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.-In a letter today to President Barack Obama U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice withdrew her name for consideration for United States secretary of state following criticism by Republican lawmakers of her comments on Islam and her description of the  Sept 11 attacks on the U.S.  diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya which  left four dead, including U....