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• Since leaving the Corps, Jones has worked on energy issues as head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for 21st Century Energy and served on the boards of Boeing and Chevron.
"He's like [General Dwight D.] Eisenhower, who belonged to no camp and everyone wanted him." - Democratic House leader Steny Hoyer on Jones' political attractiveness (The Wall Street Journal, April 23, 2007).
The most surprising thing about President-elect Obama's pick of James Jones Jr. to serve as his national security adviser isn't that he's a retired four-star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win...
• Jones was born December 19, 1943, in Kansas City, Mo., but lived for much of his youth in France, where his father sold farm machinery.
• Jones' 40 years in a Marine uniform began as a platoon commander in Vietnam and ended with a pair of plum assignments - commander of the Marine Corps and NATO military chief. He retired from the Corps in 2007.