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politico.com - 11/26/2008
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Mike Allen and ABC report that, as expected, Obama will keep Robert Gates as Defense Secretary.
There's a lot of logic to the move: It puts a Republican, as promised, in a top slot; it prevents Obama from taking the blame, immediately, for whatever happens in Iraq; and it's probably good for ...
nytimes.com - 11/26/2008
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nytimes.com —
President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert
M. Gates as a show of continuity in a
time of war, Democrats close to the transition said. >
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Obama Plans to Retain Gates at Defense Department
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
By Michael D. Shear and Ann Scott Tyson
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates is expected to
stay on at the Pentagon for at least a year after Barack Obama takes office, providing the new president with a Republican presence in his cabinet and a ...
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Gates Expected to Remain at Defense
mudvillegazette.com - 11/26/2008
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mudvillegazette.com —
First, your U.S. history trivia for the day:
Henry Lewis Stimson, Secretary of War throughout World War
Two under Democrat Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, was a Republican. ***** And now back to the news. If the rumors are true, then Politico ...
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Gates Stays on at Pentagon?
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Gates Reax: The Thoughtless and The Thoughtful
The Moderate Voice —
... Reading Ben Smith’s blog late yesterday afternoon, I was struck by the empty-headed hysteria of one commenter’s response to the news that President-elect Obama would retain Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense: ...
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