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‘Prez Hill’ eyed O for Cabinet

Hillary wanted Obama for her own — Cabinet, that is.

Despite initially turning him down, the president’s former 2008 campaign rival changed her mind about serving in Obama’s Cabinet because she would have picked him to serve in hers had she won the 2008 White House election.

In a rare joint interview with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama that aired last night on “60 Minutes,” Clinton recalled how Obama invited her to Chicago after the election to offer her arguably the highest-profile Cabinet post in his administration, only to have her decline.

“I immediately said, ‘Oh, Mr. President, there’s so many other people. Let me give you some other names,’” Clinton recalled.

But he wouldn’t take no, and asked her to think on it.

“I thought, ‘You know, if the roles had been reversed and I had ended up winning, I would have desperately wanted him to be in my Cabinet. So if I’m saying I would have wanted him to say yes to me, how am I going to justify saying no to my president?’” Hillary reasoned.

The pair talked about how the bitter personal attacks during the campaign were quickly forgotten by the candidates, although their staffers and spouses took longer to come around — especially a certain former president.

“When the shoes were on the other feet, all of a sudden, you know, this calm, cool guy who never was upset by anything is all of a sudden watching me . . .” Hillary started to say of husband Bill.