Can't be too bad a choice, or can it?!?
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Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Republican, said he was informed Tuesday morning that Obama was to nominate Carter and that he backs the expected nomination. An aide of Inhofe said later the senator had based his comments on press reports.
“I support it very strongly,” Inhofe said of Carter’s probable nomination. “I’m very pleased he is going to be our secretary of defense. I can’t imagine that he’s going to have opposition to his confirmation.”
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