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 | | With the exception of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who did it at West Point, Poindexter was the only man to achieve both honors at a service academy, according to Reagan. |
 | | >From Annapolis, Poindexter became a Burke scholar at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned a doctorate in nuclear physics, studying under Nobel laureate Rudolph Mossbauer. |
 | | A significant part of his career was spent at the Pentagon, where he served on the personal staffs of three Navy secretaries--John Chaffee, John Warner and J. William Middendorf II--and was executive assistant to the chief of naval operations, Adm. James Holloway III, in 1976-78. |
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