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John Kerry

Mass

(27,315 posts) Sat Sep 14, 2013, 08:30 PM Sep 2013

She would be the first woman to have the post. No idea what her foreign policy views are, but she clearly has been around Kerry and Gary Hart for a while.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2013/09/10/obama-to-tap-heather-higginbottom-as-deputy-secretary-of-state/

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Heather Higginbottom named deputy secretary of state (Original Post) Mass Sep 2013 OP

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1. so republicans didn't support her when Obama nominated her to a position at the OMB

Sun Sep 15, 2013, 02:37 AM

Sep 2013

because she didn't have "business experience". so they didn't think anything about her degree in public policy .