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Published 11/22/2008 by Michael Abramowitz, Shailagh Murray and Anne E. Kornblut at Wash Post Obama Administration
Barack Obama appears intent on naming an experienced and centrist foreign policy team, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state and retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones as national security adviser, sources said yesterday.
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