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Senior Obama aide leaving White House for military service
President Barack Obama’s longest-serving foreign policy aide, Mark Lippert, is leaving the White House to serve as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy.
Lippert, a 36-year-old Navy reservist and Iraq war veteran, will leave his job as chief of staff for the White House National Security Council to return to active duty, a White House statement said.
The White House did not say where Lippert would be deployed.
Lippert’s departure was described in some media accounts as a “shakeup” but White House sources said he would be back after his service is up in six to nine months.
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“Obama, himself, said Lippert would be welcome back at the White House anytime.”
I understand that superfluous commas add a lot to the aesthetics of a sentence, but it’s your job to write. That sentence, as written, makes no sense.