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Obama stresses diplomacy with new national security team

 
The president-elect formally introduces the group, including Hillary Clinton as secretary of State nominee -- and Susan Rice as ambassador to the U.N., a position he's restoring to Cabinet level. > President-elect Barack Obama on Monday introduced his national security team, made up of centrist Washington insiders, and promised an overhaul of foreign policy to give added emphasis to diplomacy and bring a "new dawn of American leadership." (link)

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