Posted on 12/09/2004 10:52:15 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
A look at the six people in President Bush's 15-member Cabinet who will remain in the administration in the second term:
-TREASURY SECRETARY JOHN SNOW: A strong advocate of the administration's economic policies, notably big tax cuts, Snow accepted Bush's offer Wednesday to remain. A former chief at railroad giant CSX with a Ph.D. in economics, Snow, 65, took over the Treasury Department in February.
-DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD H. RUMSFELD: In an announcement last week, Bush decided Rumsfeld, 72, would not go, ignoring criticism of the secretary's handling of Iraq and giving him a strong vote of confidence. It had been widely believed at the Pentagon that he wanted to stay on, at least temporarily, to oversee the transition in Iraq and shepherd his plan to fundamentally transform and modernize the U.S. military.
-TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY NORMAN Y. MINETA: Aides had said that Mineta, 73, the Cabinet's only Democrat, could leave the Cabinet sometime next year, after Congress passes a huge highway spending bill. But on Wednesday, Mineta accepted Bush's request that he remain. Mineta has recovered from health problems that plagued him during the first term and forced him to work from home and the hospital.
-INTERIOR SECRETARY GALE NORTON: Norton, 50, had made it clear she wanted to stay, earlier dismissing any notion that she might return soon to Colorado to begin a campaign for governor or senator, or to seek an appointment as a federal judge. After talking with Bush on Wednesday, she accepted his offer to stay.
-HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY ALPHONSO JACKSON: Jackson, 59, is a Bush friend from Texas who just took over HUD in March. Aides say Jackson plans to start work soon on promoting HUD's second-term agenda. Jackson's continued service was clinched in a conversation with Bush last month.
-LABOR SECRETARY ELAINE CHAO: Chao, 51, the first Asian-American woman appointed to a Cabinet post, accepted Bush's offer, made on Wednesday, that she remain. Previously, Chao had said little publicly about her job plans other than she enjoys the post and serves at the pleasure of the president. Chao is married to the Senate's assistant majority leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Unnngh.
As a Coloradian, I would have liked to see Gale come home and run for Gov.
You forgot the mandatory cavity searches of Norwegian grandmothers.
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