Article posted: 2/4/2013 2:06 PM

Kerry has ‘big heels to fill’ at State Dept.

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New Secretary of State John Kerry shows his first diplomatic passport he got when he was eleven years old when his father was in the foreign service, during a ceremony welcoming him as the 68th secretary of state Monday at the State Department in Washington.

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New Secretary of State John Kerry reported for duty Monday, acknowledging that as Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor he has "big heels to fill" and promising to protect U.S. foreign service workers from terrorist attacks overseas.