{"id":59704,"date":"2014-11-24T10:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T16:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59704"},"modified":"2014-11-27T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T01:20:41","slug":"def-sec-hagel-steps-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=59704","title":{"rendered":"Defense Secretary Hagel steps down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hagel2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-59708\" alt=\"hagel2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/hagel2.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded it&#8217;s an &#8220;appropriate time&#8221; for him to complete his service.<\/p>\n<p>Obama says Hagel will stay in place at the Pentagon until a successor is confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel has had a rocky tenure of nearly two years in which he&#8217;s struggled to break through the White House&#8217;s insular foreign policy team. He stepped down under pressure amid multiple foreign policy crises, including the rise of the Islamic State group.<\/p>\n<p>But in remarks at the White House Monday, Obama called Hagel &#8220;an exemplary defense secretary&#8221; and steady hand for strategy and budget. Obama said he&#8217;ll always be grateful that Hagel has always &#8220;given it to me straight.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON (AP) &#8211; President Barack Obama says Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has concluded it&#8217;s an &#8220;appropriate time&#8221; for him to complete his service. Obama says Hagel will stay in place at the Pentagon until a successor is confirmed. Hagel has had a rocky tenure of nearly two years in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59704"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59952,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59704\/revisions\/59952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}