2004 Presidential Transition
Bernard Kerik has pulled out of the nomination for Secretary of Homeland Security, according to the AP via the Denver Post [December 11, 2004, "U.S. security nominee pulls name"]. The blogosphere and inkesphere were digging up all sorts of great questions to ask the nominee. From the article, "One administration official helping prepare Kerik for Senate confirmation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Kerik's unexpected decision shocked senior leaders at the Homeland Security Department. This official said Kerik still had not filled out all his ethics filings - which would detail his sources of income and financial liabilities - and said the FBI background investigation of Kerik was still incomplete. But the only moderately troubling information uncovered about Kerik so far had been news that he had earned $6.2 million by exercising stock options he received from Taser International, which did lucrative business with the Homeland Security Department, the anonymous official said."
Josh Marshall: "Newsweek's Mark Hosenball suggests that his investigation may have been what scotched the Kerik nomination. And he may be right."
The President named Samuel Bodman as his nominee for Energy Secretary yesterday, according to the Denver Post [December 11, 2004, "Ex-MIT prof to lead Energy Dept."]. From the article, "Bush asked Samuel Bodman, 66, to advance a second-term energy agenda that includes ramping up domestic-energy development to help the nation begin weaning itself from foreign - particularly Middle Eastern - oil and to push the president's energy plan, which went nowhere in Congress the past four years. One controversial proposal: opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling...Bodman earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Cornell University in 1961 and a doctorate of science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He was an associate chemical engineering professor at MIT from 1965 to 1970 and technical director of the American Research and Development Corp., a venture-capital firm, from 1964 to 1970. In 1983, he was named president and chief operating officer of Fidelity Investments. In 1987, he joined Cabot Corp."
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