CBS President Obama, left, sitting for an interview with “€œ60 Minutes†correspondent Steve Kroft at the White House in 2011. Mr. Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give a joint interview this Sunday on the program.President Obama has only just started his second term but already, ith the announcement that he and Hillary Rodham Clinton will appear on the CBS News program “60 Minutes†on Sunday for their first joint interview, he has set off speculation about whether his onetime rival is privately his choice for a successor.
Just five years after their epic battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, the two were to be interviewed by Steve Kroft of “60 Minutes†on Friday, just ahead of Mrs. Clinton’s last week as Mr. Obama’s secretary of state.
The White House suggested the idea that they appear together to the State Department, said David Plouffe, Mr. Obama’s senior adviser and str! ategist, who was spending his last day in the administration on Friday.
“We wanted to do a joint interview as a way of thanks on her way out, and this seemed like a good format to do it,†said Mr. Plouffe, who suggested that Sunday’s show should be “quite the event.â€
“This is a really compelling story, I think, the arc of their relationship and that’s a good format to talk about it at some length,†he said. “There’s nothing circumscribed here.â€
Likely to be watching is Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Mr. Obama’s loyal No. 2. More than Mrs. Clinton, who has said she has no plans beyond getting some rest, Mr. Biden has given hints of his possible interest in a third run for the presidency in 2016.
