11.19.2008

Obama Formally Announces Four Cabinet Positions

Obama formally announced David Axelrod as a senior advisor, along with three other top aides, just now.

The general sense is that Obama's core campaign team, with the important exception of David Plouffe, will be shifting intact to the White House.

Also announced: Greg Craig as White House Counsel; Chris Lu, an Obama law school classmate who ran his Senate office, as Cabinet Secretary (which is not a cabinet post); and American Constitution Society executive director Lisa Brown, a former Gore vice presidential aide, as Staff Secretary, the powerful job held by figures ranging from John Podesta to Harriet Miers.

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