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Gibbs: McHugh and Obama ‘both don’t think [DADT] is working for this country right now.’
thinkprogress.org - 6/2/2009
Gibbs: McHugh and Obama ‘both don’t think [DADT] is working for this country right now.’
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Today, President Obama named Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) as his nominee to be Secretary of the Army. Though neither Obama nor McHugh discussed the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today said McHugh shares Obama’s commitment to ...
advocate.com - 6/2/2009
Gibbs: Army Secretary Nominee Favors DADT Change  | News
— advocate.com — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of the... Army, Republican representative John McHugh, agrees with the president that "don't ask, don't tell" should be changed. "I think it's ... (more) Gibbs: Army Secretary Nominee Favors DADT Change ...

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voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/2/2009
The Fix - McHugh to Be Army Secretary, Special Election Looms
— voices.washingtonpost.com — Go for it. Make sure that no hispanic ever vote R again! "Yesterday, C-SPAN invited right-wing pundit... Pat Buchanan onto its hour-long Washington Journal show. In recent days, Buchanan has made headlines for spewing hatred toward Supreme Court nominee ... (more) The Fix - McHugh to Be Army Secretary, Special Election ...

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Obama's new Army Secretary supports changing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Swampland:  Avoiding One Clinton Landmine

The Political Carnival:  McHugh hints at repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell

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Obama's new Army Secretary supports changing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... experience -- will help to improve the lives of (inaudible). McHugh is the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. During last summer's hearings on the military gay ban, McHugh expressed a desire to see a review of the policy and frustration that the Department of Defense and military leadership had not been more open to addressing the issue.So, we'll have an ally in the Pentagon. A Republican ally. And, "change" better mean "repeal." Think Progress posted the video: ...

Avoiding One Clinton Landmine
Swampland — President Barack Obama, who during the campaign pledged to end the policy of don't ask don't tell, yesterday neatly avoided a political land mine that hamstrung President Bill Clinton's first 100 days. Obama named Rep. John McHugh, a New York Republican, to be Secretary of the Army. The White House said the issue never came up in discussions between the two but underlined that both the President and McHugh are committed to changing the policy . Whatever the new guidelines for gays serving in the military end up being, they'll be harder for the GOP to ...

McHugh hints at repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell
The Political Carnival — ... the ban: “I have no interest as either a Member of Congress or as … secretary of the Army to exclude by some categorization a group of people otherwise qualified to serve,” McHugh told Roll Call. He noted that the Armed Services Committee has not considered the policy “in any formal way” since 1993. In the meantime, “certainly, the recruiting-age population’s views have changed on that whole matter,” he said. ...

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Another New York special
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NY-23: Obama to Name McHugh Secretary of the Army
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Where Does The New Army Secretary Stand On Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?
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