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Thursday, December 09, 2004Bush Keeps Four Secretaries, Taps NicholsonBy JENNIFER LOVEN, AP (pulled off AOL, no link) So, we're keeping Norton at Interior - good, Chao at Labor - fine. And then we're keeping Mineta at Transportation and Jackson at HUD. Jackson seems to me the finest HUD secretary we could ask for in a Republican administration: His name doesn't even ring a bell with me. Don't ever recall seeing him in the news and thinking, there's a story I've got to find out about. Like I say, a perfect HUD secretary in a Republican administration. Mineta, on the other hand... 4 airliners were hijacked and turned into weapons on his watch and the result is hundreds of thousands of cross-continent travelers with unkempt fingernails. True, no more attacks have happened. But, well, this isn't necessarily a guy I would have kept. They're also bringing on Jim Nicholson for Veterans' Affairs. This is a good pick. As RNC Chair, Nicholson was sort of a pain in the you-know-what, too sensitive to media critiques to hold the line on controversial (read conservative) positions, but too much a believer in said positions to keep his mouth shut before he got burned. In short, Republicans were forced to take moderate positions while getting blamed for conservative ones that were deemed unworkable but never tried. However, Nicholson is a good guy who seems sincerely to want to do well by those he works with. The VA position, while it has its challenges, seems to fit in with his background (Nicholson is a dedicated Vietnam vet and a credible spokesman for soldiers) much better than the RNC position. We hope things turn out well - i.e. that in four years he'll have done as well as Secretary Jackson at HUD. 
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