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Article: The quiet crusader: Stephen Herbits has worked for every Republican president since Richard Nixon. Now the openly gay Defense Department insider--who opposes "don't ask, don't tell"--is fighting for gay rights in Florida's Miami-Dade County. (People).
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2002
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Stephen Herbits wasn't surprised to hear his old friend Donald Rumsfeld on the other end of the phone line. The newly appointed secretary of Defense was calling in January 2001 to enlist Herbits in a familiar role: overseeing Pentagon hiring in the Bush administration. It was a task that Herbits, who has known Rumsfeld for more than 30 years, has performed for every Republican president since Richard Nixon.
Herbits, 60, quietly agreed to a 120-day consultancy with the Defense Department while looking forward to returning to the peaceful anonymity of his semiretirement in Miami Beach, Fla. But before he even had a chance to miss his sun-drenched condo and its view ...