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Article: Naming National Security Team Will Be a Priority for Obama
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 19, 2008
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If President-elect Barack Obama follows the pattern of most of
his modern predecessors, one of the first documents to bear his
signature after he takes office will be a directive laying out his
administration's national security structure. Bill Clinton signed
one his first day in office; George W. Bush during his first month.
The directive traditionally sets the membership of the National
Security Council, determining who has a seat at the table where the
highest-level defense and foreign policy decisions are made. Most
important, it determines the person who schedules meetings of the
NSC principals and writes the agendas, who sits at the head of the
table in the absence of the president ...