From The Cable, Laura Rozen's Blog: Derek Chollet to Foggy Bottom?

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Sources tell The Cable that the Center for a New American Security's Derek Chollet, a Washington foreign policy hand who has helped former Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher write their memoirs, and been an aide to former Clinton Russia hand Strobe Talbott, is likely to be named deputy director of the State Department Office of Policy Planning (working under Anne-Marie Slaughter, the dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs).

Chollet, who also served as an advisor to John Edwards during the Democratic primary, "understands the building," commented one Washington Democratic foreign policy hand, saying that attribute would be a big help to Slaughter, who comes to Foggy Bottom from academia. "Chollet is a consummate Washington foreign policy specialist ... and has consistently been named one of the best young minds." Chollet declined to comment...http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/node/15094
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