Bush Nominates New Energy Secretary

U.S. President George W. Bush today nominated Deputy Treasury Secretary Samuel Bodman to replace Spencer Abraham as energy secretary, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, Nov. 16).

Bodman “has shown himself to be a problem solver who knows how to set goals and knows how to reach them,” Bush said (Associated Press/New York Times, Dec. 10).

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