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Obama Nominates Mabus for SecNav

Monday, March 30, 2009
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The Navy Times reported that former Mississippi governor Ray Mabus will be nominated as the next Secretary of the Navy, as the Obama administration announced on March 27. Mabus served as the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1994 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton and served in the U.S. Navy as a surface warfare officer aboard the missile cruiser Little Rock.

(Source: Navy Times)

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