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U.S Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses former Secretary of State George Shultz and Hoover Institution members at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Sept. 24, 2008. The institution is a public policy research center within Stanford devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy.

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U.S Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, addresses former Secretary of State George Shultz and Hoover Institution members at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., Sept. 24, 2008. The institution is a public policy research center within Stanford devoted to the advanced study of politics, economics, and political economy.

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