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Biden Picks Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to Run Pentagon

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Confirming Austin as the first Black defense chief would require a legal waiver from Congress—the second erosion in four years of a measure for civilian control of the military.

Spencer Ackerman 

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Sam Stein
Barack Obama and Lloyd Austin.
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