**FILE** Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks Nov. 1, 2012, to the ... more >“He is obviously a person of great stature and respected by both parties and has established in the past a close relationship with then-Senator Obama,” Mr. Inderfurth said. “They both worked together on the so-called Nunn-Lugar cooperative threat reduction programs. They traveled together.”
While tapping Mr. Lugar would be “quite a statement,” Mr. Inderfurth said the president set such a precedent when he kept Republican-appointed former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at the Pentagon well into the administration’s first term.
“Lugar, if you will, is the foreign policy equivalent of the national security specialist Robert Gates,” he said.
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