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Would you put Pete Hegseth in the nuclear chain-of-command?
THE LAST time the Senate formally rejected a president’s cabinet nominee came in 1989 when John Tower was denied the honour of becoming George H.W. Bush’s defence secretary because of his boozing and womanising. Time may be linear but politics is cyclical. The next entry in this ledger could well be Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice for defence secretary, because of his boozing and womanising.