Mother, tell your children not too walk Matt's way

Richard Danzig, a former Secretary of the Navy who was a key Obama defense policy adviser thoughout the campaign, will be taking a position at the Center for a New American Security rather than joining the administration. Initial transition speculation had him serving as Robert Gates' deputy at the Pentagon in anticipation of taking over the top job down the road, but evidently that didn't work out and none of the other jobs he was offered were too his liking.

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