Meet Patrick Shanahan, the former Boeing executive nicknamed 'Mr. Fix-It' who's replacing General James Mattis as Defense secretary
Donald Trump Patrick Shanahan "He will be great!" Trump wrote in a tweet on Sunday. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Images
Patrick Shanahan, the deputy defense secretary, will succeed defense secretary James Mattis and serve as acting defense secretary at the Pentagon.
Before being appointed as Mattis' deputy in 2017, Shanahan worked as a Boeing executive for decades.
The Washington state native was known throughout Boeing as a problem-solving "Mr. Fix-It."
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