Jones Would Bring Long Resume To Advisor Role

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Retired Gen. James L. Jones

Jones Would Bring Long Resume To Advisor Role

By Robert Burns and Richard Lardner - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Nov 29, 2008 14:48:21 EST

WASHINGTON — In late summer 1979 a Marine named James L. Jones arrived on Capitol Hill for a new assignment as advocate for Marine programs in the Senate. His boss was a Navy officer and fellow Vietnam vet who showed Jones the political ropes and became a lifelong friend — John McCain.

Today, Jones, who retired as a four-star general last year after 40 years in the Marines, is on track to begin answering to another new boss: the man who denied McCain his dream of becoming president.

As national security adviser in President-elect Barack Obama’s White House, Jones would have a deep well of experience from which to draw as the new commander in chief confronts not just the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but also the nearly inevitable pop-up threats to American security interests.

Jones, 64, is expected to be announced by Obama next week as part of the president-elect’s national security team, along with Robert Gates as secretary of defense and Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

Obama, with limited foreign policy experience, would benefit from Jones’s “natural calm and leadership instincts,” says retired Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has known Jones for 38 years.

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