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After weeks of speculation, Jim Steinberg, a former Clinton State Department official who now serves as Dean of UT's LBJ School of Public Affairs, has been nominated Deputy Secretary of State. Steinberg announced his departure in an e-mail to students and faculty, excerpted from Politico: Tomorrow I anticipate that President-elect Obama will announce his intention to nominate me for the position of Deputy Secretary of State, an honor for which I am deeply appreciative. If confirmed (and as all good LBJ’ers know, it would be the height of hubris to presume how the Senate might act on my nomination), it will be a great privilege to serve with President Obama, Secretary of State-designate Clinton and the entire national security team at this time of great challenge but also of great opportunity for the United States and the world.
The full text of Steinberg's e-mail is after the jump.
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