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10-08-2010, 03:28 PM
Tom Donilon: new national security adviser who will be seen as an outsider
Tom Donilon is a workaholic and foreign policy specialist who was involved in the 1970s Carter administration
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Tom Donilon: named national security adviser following resignation of General James Jones. Photograph:Larry Downing/Reuters
Tom Donilon, 55, the new national security adviser, is a foreign policy wonk and workaholic whose appointment opens up the potential for strained relations between the White House and the Pentagon.
As he is a civilian, the Pentagon will be suspicious of him, seeing him as an outsider in the way that his predecessor, General James Jones was not.
He was involved in politics as far back as the Carter administration in the 1970s and was a senior state department foreign policy adviser in the Clinton administration.
When Barack Obama (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama) was preparing for office, he considered Donilon as deputy secretary of state but made him Jones's deputy instead.
Donilon has a formidable reputation at the White House as a workaholic. His wife Cathy also works at the White House, as chief of staff to vice-president Joe Biden's wife Jill.
Tom Donilon is a workaholic and foreign policy specialist who was involved in the 1970s Carter administration
[/URL] Friday 8 October 2010 20.05 BST
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Tom Donilon: named national security adviser following resignation of General James Jones. Photograph:Larry Downing/Reuters
Tom Donilon, 55, the new national security adviser, is a foreign policy wonk and workaholic whose appointment opens up the potential for strained relations between the White House and the Pentagon.
As he is a civilian, the Pentagon will be suspicious of him, seeing him as an outsider in the way that his predecessor, General James Jones was not.
He was involved in politics as far back as the Carter administration in the 1970s and was a senior state department foreign policy adviser in the Clinton administration.
When Barack Obama (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama) was preparing for office, he considered Donilon as deputy secretary of state but made him Jones's deputy instead.
Donilon has a formidable reputation at the White House as a workaholic. His wife Cathy also works at the White House, as chief of staff to vice-president Joe Biden's wife Jill.