Dean's "kitchen cabinet" to be announed Monday

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As part of this transition, Dean has begun to pull into his campaign a team of senior foreign policy advisers, many of whom served in the Clinton administration. His campaign will announce the members of this "kitchen cabinet" Monday when he makes his speech, which along with a planned economics speech is intended to lay out his major themes before the New Hampshire primary Jan. 27.

During the interview, the former governor of Vermont appeared at ease handling questions that hopscotched across global trouble spots. One of his foreign policy aides, Ivo Daalder of the Brookings Institution, sat at his side as he tackled back-to-back newspaper interviews on foreign policy. Dean and Daalder, a former Clinton aide, huddled for five minutes after The Washington Post interview to review Dean's comments before beginning the second session.

In addition to Daalder, campaign aides said, Dean's core foreign policy team includes former national security adviser Anthony Lake; retired Gen. Joseph Hoare, a former chief of U.S. Central Command; retired Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, former chief of staff of the Air Force; two former assistant secretaries of defense, Ashton Carter and Frank Kramer; former assistant secretary of state Susan Rice; and political theorist Benjamin R. Barber. Danny E. Sebright, a former Defense Department civil servant who works for the consulting firm headed by Clinton defense secretary William Cohen, is Dean's foreign policy coordinator.

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Dean has also reached out to leading members of the Democratic foreign policy establishment as he tries to fill in the gaps in his foreign policy approach. "Dean certainly represents continuity with the bipartisan centrist line that has characterized American foreign policy from 1948 until shortly after 9/11," said Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski reviewed a draft of Dean's speech but has not endorsed any candidate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62184-2003Dec13.html


He also plans to announce on Monday that a host of advisers -- including W. Anthony Lake, former President Bill Clinton's first national security adviser; Adm. Stansfield Turner , the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency;  and Adm. Charles Larson, the former commander of all forces in the Pacific -- have signed on to the campaign. Like several of the other Democratic candidates, he also consults Samuel R. Berger, who succeeded Mr. Lake as national security adviser.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/politics/campaigns/14DEAN.html?ex=1071982800&en=bb20edebace4f803&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

[UrbScotty]

1. It's Ashton Kutcher, not Ashton Carter.

Duh.

Just kidding.

Seriously, it's good that Dean's surrounding himself with good people with foreign affairs know-how.

[CalProf]

3. Yeah, Stansfield Turner...

Do a little research on that guy and see if you still think Dean's going to do any radical changes...

[DFLforever]

6. Who claims Dean's a radical?

He seems to talk more frequently of return to policies of earlier adminstrations...he implies GWB is 'radical' with his doctrine of pre-emptive war.

[MichDem10]

2. WTF!!

:wtf: :puke:

Creating a defacto cabinet before a single vote has been cast?

All hail King Howard! :argh:

Frankly I hope a bombshell drops. :nuke:

[DFLforever]

4. Maybe he's responding to the friendly foreign policy credential

critique from the other candidates.

[tsipple]

5. Kitchen Cabinet, MichDem10

All the campaigns have foreign policy advisors, and they should. Dean is expanding his and publicly announcing its ranks. As he should.

By the way, welcome to DU, MichDem10. :hi:

[LuminousX]

7. Uh, Dude... this is normal

It is bad for a candidate NOT to have a 'kitchen cabinet' and if you check history, kitchen cabinet relates to Andrew Jackson's informal advisors he consulted because Congress stuck him with a group of cronies. It now means any informal group of advisors and allows a candidate to have greater depth and gives voters a chance to see what kind of people the candidate will surround himself with.

Kerry gathered his group (impressive group if I may say so) earlier. Nothing wrong with it.

[loyalsister]

9. Standard

even at lower levels. We have one in our area that recruits and advises state level candidates.

[davidinalameda]

8. looks pretty good

always good to surround yourself with people who know what's going on