blogs.tnr.com - 12/23/2008
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The Times nails down Hillary's deputy at State--and the news is that it's not one deputy but two:
Mrs. Clinton is recruiting Jacob J. Lew , the budget director under President Bill Clinton , as one of two deputies, according to people close to the Obama transition team . Mr. Lew’s ...
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Free-Range Clinton?
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... Mark Landler and Helene Cooper. “Mrs. Clinton is recruiting Jacob J. Lew, the budget director under President Bill Clinton, as one of two deputies, according to people close to the Obama transition team. Mr. Lew’s focus, they said, will be on increasing the share of financing that goes to the diplomatic corps. He and James B. Steinberg, a deputy national security adviser in the Clinton administration, are to be Mrs. Clinton’s chief lieutenants.” The New Republic’s Noam Scheiber isn’t sure about Mrs. Clinton’s push “to play a part in the recovery from the global financial ...
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