The moment Obama popped the question

He had just been elected leader of the free world. She was strolling through the wilds of a nature reserve. Little did she know that her phone was about to ring, and that he would pop a question that would change her life forever.

“Hillary, will you be my secretary of state?”

Clinton has been speaking to ABC’s 'Good Morning America' about the moment Obama offered her the role of chief diplomat in his new administration. It went something like this:

“And my husband and I were out for a walk, actually, in a, sort of, preserve near where we live in New York. And he had his cell phone in his pocket.

"It started ringing in the middle of this, you know, big nature preserve,” Clinton said. “Instead of turning it off, he answered it. And it was President-elect Obama wanting to talk to him about some people he was considering for positions.”

Hillary took the phone.

“He said I want you to be my secretary of state. And I said, ‘Oh, no, you don’t,’” Clinton recalled. “I said, 'Oh, please, there’s so many other people who could do this.'

“But, you know, we kept talking. I finally began thinking, look, if I had won and I had called him, I would have wanted him to say yes.

“And, you know, I’m pretty old-fashioned, and it’s just who I am. So at the end of the day, when your president asks you to serve, you say yes, if you can.”

Would she have popped the question, if the shoe had been on the other foot? “Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, of course.”