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Robert Gates agrees to stay on as Defense chief under Obama

 

Published 11/26/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Obama is apparently ready to choose another military leader with bipartisan support, Marine Gen. James L. Jones, for national security advisor. > Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has agreed to serve in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, advisors said Tuesday, setting up the unusual situation in which a wartime Pentagon chief remains to work under a president who has condemned the previous administration's policies. (link)

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