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OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE
If elected, Barack Obama and his advisers have promised to bring bipartisanship and experience to his administration.
Advisers suggest that among those who would be considered for Cabinet-level posts are two Republicans, Sens. Richard Lugar of Indiana and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.
A leading candidate for White House chief of staff is Tom Daschle, D-S.D., the former Senate majority leader, but there could be dark-horse candidates, including Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., a close Obama adviser who worked for President Bill Clinton.
Several advisers to Obama also said the party's 2004 presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, could be on the short list to become secretary of State.
Obama has already turned to veterans of the Clinton White House, tasking former chief of staff John Podesta, now head of a prominent liberal think tank, to coordinate his preliminary transition. Leading the effort to decide transition personnel is Cassandra Butts, a law school friend of Obama's and an associate at Podesta's Center for American Progress.
As he prepares to try to end the war in Iraq and shift the military's emphasis to Afghanistan, Obama would have to quickly fill the top Pentagon job, either by leaving current Defense Secretary Robert Gates in place, as some Obama allies have advocated, or by choosing a new one, such as Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, coauthor of the Senate Democrats' Iraq withdrawal plan.
In addition to the Pentagon, the top three Cabinet positions that advisers said are a priority are attorney general, secretary of State and, perhaps most pressing, Treasury secretary.
Obama already consults with a core group of economic and financial advisers, some of whom could become fixtures. The group consists of former Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers, former Clinton economic adviser Gene Sperling, former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker and Michael Froman, who was Rubin's chief of staff at Treasury. Summers' name has surfaced as a contender for his former post, and Froman could also join the White House team, officials familiar with transition talks said. Another contender for the Treasury job is Timothy Geithner, the Federal Reserve Bank president in New York who worked under Rubin and Summers.
Other names include Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and former Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder as candidates for attorney general; a pair of former National Security Council members, Susan Rice and James Steinberg, as candidates for national security adviser; and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for some Cabinet post.
McCain story is by Michael Abramowitz and Michael D. Shear. Obama story is by Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray. Both stories are from the Washington Post.
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