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...chances are said to be about 50-50 that Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position, at least for the first year of the new Administration. Backers of such a move say the new commander-in-chief could use the continuity Gates would offer, but critics counter that keeping him on could delay Obama's promised U.S. troop pullout from Iraq and fail to signal a clear break from Bush's policy...
...early 2007, John McCain sat down to breakfast at a back table in the Senate Dining Room with Ken Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last White House chief of staff and one of the few big-name Republicans to have supported McCain rather than George W. Bush in 2000. It stood to reason that the fabled Washington wise man would back McCain again. Instead, Duberstein said he was troubled by McCain's efforts to ingratiate himself with the conservative wing of their party. He cited a fence-mending commencement address McCain had given at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University...
...think McCain's best years are ahead of him," says Mark McKinnon, who was McCain's chief admaker and a top adviser until June, when he dropped out of the campaign because he didn't want to participate in attacking Obama. "He'll put it all behind him quickly. He'll say the challenges the country faces are greater than any burden he carries from the campaign. And then he can help President Obama get important things done...
...going to be his chief of staff...
...there is already a chief of staff...