In eighteen ninety-seven, President William McKinley named Theodore Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

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Pressure from the president's liberal Democratic base is likely to have an impact on that decision, says former assistant secretary of state Teresita Schaffer.

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Onetime deputy assistant secretary of defense under President Reagan, later appointed ambassador to Austria.

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He's a former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and now a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

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To maintain momentum, the American president has appointed John Wolf, an assistant secretary of state, to lead a team to monitor progress.

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