President-elect Barack Obama plans to nominate Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State on Monday, joining hands with his former party rival to guide the US foreign policy in the midst of a financial crisis and the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Apart from 61-year-old Clinton, the Democratic President-elect is expected to confirm at an event in Chicago on Monday that he is retaining Defence Secretary Robert Gates in his post and naming retired Marine General Jim Jones as his National Security adviser at the White House, CNN reported, citing two Democratic officials.

Jones officially agreed to take the job in the past few days after much contemplation, the officials were quoted as saying.

The names of the three were doing the rounds in the recent weeks and it was almost certain that they would get the posts.

In fact, retiring Republican Senator John Warner, a veteran member of the Armed Services Committee, has already released a statement, praising all three nominees before they were even named, the report said.

"The triumvirate of Gates, Clinton and Jones to lead Obama's 'national security team' instills great confidence at home and abroad and further strengthens the growing respect for the President-elect's courage and ability to exercise sound judgement in selecting the 'best and the brightest' to implement our nation's security policies," Warner was quoted as saying by CNN.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post reported that Hillary's husband, former president Bill Clinton, has agreed to make public 200,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation as part of an agreement with Obama's transition team designed to allow his wife to be named secretary of state.

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