WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is summoning former defense secretaries and secretaries of state of both parties to the White House to rally support for imperiled nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.
Those invited to White House on Thursday include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, Sen. Richard Lugar and former Sen. Sam Nunn, plus former secretaries of state Madeleine Albright, James Baker and Henry Kissinger.
Former defense secretaries William Cohen and William Perry and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft also are included.
The White House says Obama wants to outline why it is in the national interest that the Senate approve the treaty this year. A key Republican opposes a vote this year.
