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January 12, 2009

Posted: January 12th, 2009 02:55 PM ET

From CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott

Clinton and Rice will meet for dinner on the eve of the New York senator's secretary of state confirmation hearing.

WASHINGTON (CNN) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley will host a private dinner Monday night for their likely successors, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gen. James Jones, according to senior State Department officials.

Nobody else will be in attendance at the meeting.

Clinton and Rice have met a couple of times since Clinton was nominated by Obama for the position of secretary of state.

Filed under: Condoleezza Rice • Hillary Clinton • James Jones • Stephen Hadley

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