Herman Cain might have dropped his outsider bid for the White
House, but now he’s eyeing a new job: Defense secretary.
Cain, the business executive who suspended his presidential
campaign last month amid allegations of an affair and sexual harassment, said in
an interview with Barbara Walters he’d want to run the Pentagon.
When asked what Cabinet position he would want, Cain said, “Totally,
totally hypothetical: Department of Defense.”
{mosads}“What?” Walters responded, clearly surprised. “Not Treasury?
I mean, you’re the 9-9-9 guy.”
Cain said he wanted to be Defense secretary to help rebuild
the military “the way it should be.”
Walters said that to run the Pentagon, he would need a
strong knowledge of foreign countries, and reminded him, “You have had some
difficulty with that.”
“I have been doing my homework ever since that difficulty,”
Cain said.
In the interview, Cain also acknowledged that it was
unlikely any of the GOP presidential candidates would choose him as a running
mate because “the spin of the spin would start all over again.”