boston.com - 2/24/2009
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By Bryan Bender, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- President Obama late this afternoon nominated Harvard professor Ashton B. Carter, a leading authority on arms control, to take on a surprising new role, according to top administration officials -- as the Pentagon's...
pajamasmedia.com - 3/2/2009
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We came to Washington in 1977, and Jimmy
Carter had just been inaugurated. So I well remember...
the years of malaise and humiliation, the stagflation, chilly offices in the winter, the rapidly expanding power of the Soviet Union, the appeasement ...
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Is it Jimmy Obama?
huffingtonpost.com - 2/23/2009
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President Obama late this afternoon nominated Harvard professor
Ashton B. Carter, a leading authority on arms control,...
to take on a surprising new role, according to top administration officials -- as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer.
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Ashton Carter: Obama Nominates Harvard Professor As Top ...
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... account of cost growth in weapons systems and defense services." A trained scientist with a doctorate in theoretical physics and a degree in Medieval history, Carter's advocates say the long-time Harvard professor and national security specialist is being chosen because his combination of technical expertise and knowledge of defense strategy will be needed to make what Gates calls "difficult choices" about which weapons programs to invest in and which ones to terminate. Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligen... According to the article, this is who ...
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by divorced one like Bush Via Multi Medium comes a link to Boston.com for an article regarding another Obama appointment. President Obama late this afternoon nominated Harvard professor Ashton B. Carter, a leading authority on arms control, to take on a surprising new role, according to top administration officials -- as the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer. Instead, from his perch at Harvard's Kennedy School, Carter has been criticizing the Pentagon for buying too many armaments it doesn't need, decrying what he calls a lack of discipline and ...
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