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Mr. Nunn served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee for eight years and is the head of a global security nonprofit. Mr. Boren, now the president of the University of Oklahoma, was the longest-serving chairman of what was known as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

“He’s got good judgment and good common sense, and he is able to inspire people to come together,” Mr. Nunn told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell today. “That’s the most important quality in my view.”

Mr. Reich adds. “His plans for reforming Social Security and health care have a better chance of succeeding. His approaches to the housing crisis and the failures of our financial markets are sounder than hers. His ideas for improving our public schools and confronting the problems of poverty and inequality are more coherent and compelling. He has put forward the more enlightened foreign policy and the more thoughtful plan for controlling global warming.”