Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gets a warm and rousing welcome on her first day at her new job. In brief remarks from a staircase in the lobby of the State Department, Clinton tells hundreds of foreign service officers and employees that she expects them to work as a team within the new administration.

"We aren't any longer going to tolerate the kind of divisiveness that has paralyzed and undermined our ability to get things done for America," she says, without elaboration.

She also notes that her new boss, President Obama, will be stopping by in the afternoon for a visit.

Update at 2:54 p.m. ET: Clinton welcomes President Obama and Vice President Biden to the State Department. She also officially announces appointment of former Sen. George Mitchell, of Maine, as Middle East envoy, and former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke as envoy for Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

By Doug Stanglin, USA Today, January 22, 2009