Gender hiring improved from a D to a C among senior team administration, but it remained an F among team vice presidents.

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The Obama Administration has successfully killed the fabulous F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft.

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The Administration acknowledges that probably roughly 10% of the F-16 technology the United States expects to share with Japan could be applied to commercial aerospace endeavors.

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For instance, former Navy Secretary Gordon England was launched by the admirals on a hapless mission to kill the Marine version of the F-35 joint strike fighter during the first Bush Administration, only to be shot down in joint deliberations.

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There are, of course, other ways for the Obama administration to show its commitment to Japan, but someday the U.S. may need all the F-22s it can muster.

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This year award-winning American journalist Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate scandal in the Washington Post in 1972, will reflect on the Barack Obama administration and the American anniversaries of Gettysburg (150th), the Vietnam war (40th) and President John F Kennedy's assassination (50th).

BBC: Hans Blix, Miranda Hart and Carl Bernstein