Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Obama Taps David Boren, Sam Nunn

Barack Obama today named University of Oklahoma President David Boren and former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn to a senior advisory committee on national security.
Boren and Nunn jointly announced their support of Obama during the Democratic presidential primary.
Boren and Nunn are members of what Obama (pictured arriving at the Democratic National Committee headquarters for the group's first meeting) calls his Senior Working Group on National Security that will advise him on foreign policy. The group's first meeting is today in Washington.
Other members are former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Warren Christopher and former Defense Secretary William Perry, and former Congressmen Lee Hamilton of Indiana and Tim Roemer of Indiana.

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