New Navy Secretary Selected, Sources Say
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Richard Danzig, the Navy’s former No. 2 official and a key figure in resolving a Naval Academy cheating scandal in 1992, has been selected to replace retiring Navy Secretary John H. Dalton, Pentagon sources say. Danzig, 53, who served as Navy undersecretary from November 1993 until May 1997, is a Rhodes scholar and a graduate of Yale Law School. As undersecretary, Danzig helped resolve the Naval Academy’s scandal in which dozens of midshipmen admitted that they had cheated on exams.
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