The secretary of state can be given less to do.

A secretary of state must answer to the people and to Congress.

My husband is not the secretary of state, I am.

What difference would it really make if the secretary of state took over for a bit?

And I'm going to do it with the secretary of state.

And might the secretary of state find himself subject to yet another legal challenge?

And that's what I'm going to do as secretary of state.

They, too, saw the secretary of state read the statement.

The President nodded, then turned to his secretary of state.

After one year he became state secretary in the same ministry.