Officials say Holder is Obama's top choice for AG
By Associated Press Writers Matt Apuzzo And Lara Jakes Jordan
[Nov 18th, 2008 at 4:31 pm EST]
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_attorney_general

WASHINGTON -- Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday.

Holder, a former U.S. attorney who served as the No. 2 official in the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton, would be the nation's first black attorney general.

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