Administration sources told Reuters on Tuesday that President Obama has settled on 60-year-old Pentagon official Ashton Carter as his fourth defense secretary, with an announcement "expected in coming days once he is thoroughly vetted."
+ Carter is a nuclear physicist by training. He previously served as deputy secretary of defense, and was an undersecretary for Obama and an assistant secretary for President Clinton. So he's been around.
+ Carter is a nuclear physicist by training. He previously served as deputy secretary of defense, and was an undersecretary for Obama and an assistant secretary for President Clinton. So he's been around.
+ "No household name, Ashton Carter has earned his stripes in the national security trenches the quiet way," writes the Associated Press. "For decades he has toiled as a defense thinker and strategist, nuclear expert, three-time Pentagon executive, budget guru and academician."
+ Frankly, being secretary of defense kinda sucks.
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