Levin: Obama Can And Will End ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
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Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, expressed optimism Sunday on Meet the Press that President Obama would be able to keep his promise on ending the military ban on gays.

“I think he will and he can,” Levin said. “I think it has to be done in the right way, which is to get a buy-in from the military, which I think is now possible.”

Levin said definitively that he believes the President has the resolve to overturn “don’t ask, don’t tell,” but seemed slightly less certain when asked about the resolve of Congress.

“I think we will gain that resolve,” Levin said.

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