President-elect Barack Obama unveiled his national security team at a press conference in Chicago on Monday. Obama said, “The time has come for a new beginning, a new dawn of American leadership to overcome the challenges of the 21st century. We will strengthen our capacity to defeat our enemies and support our friends. We will renew old alliances and forge new and enduring partnerships.”

Obama named former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his choice for secretary of state and said he would keep Robert Gates as defense minister as the incoming administration seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq.

Washington lawyer Eric Holder was named attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as homeland security secretary. He also announced two senior foreign policy positions outside the Cabinet: campaign foreign policy adviser Susan Rice as U.N. ambassador and retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones as national security adviser.