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Obama's national security adviser James Jones resigning

Jones, the point person for coordinating foreign policy advice to Obama, had been expected to leave his post by the end of 2010. It was not immediately clear when his resignation would be effective.

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President Barack Obama's national security adviser, General James Jones, is resigning and will be replaced by his deputy, Tom Donilon, a senior administration official said on Friday.                                           
 
Jones, the point person for coordinating foreign policy advice to Obama, had been expected to leave his post by the end of 2010. It was not immediately clear when his resignation would be effective.                                           
 
Donilon has served in senior roles in the state department and is close to vice president Joe Biden. He is known as one of the White House's hardest working staffers and associates describe him as highly effective.                                           
 
Jones is the latest in a series of high-level Obama aides to leave the administration recently, following Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who left to run for mayor of Chicago. National Economic Council director Larry Summers is leaving by the end of the year and Council of economic advisers chairperson Christina Romer left last month.
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