Thompson to Leave Cabinet, Rumsfeld Stays
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announces his resignation at HSS headquarters in Washington Friday, Dec. 3, 2004.
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Any question about why Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson might not have been a good fit in President Bush&#39;s second-term Cabinet was answered in his moment of resignation.
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Republican Fred Thompson played down a staff member's departure and a New Hampshire supporter's defection Wednesday, saying it's not up to him to know what's going on at every level of his presidential campaign.
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With the departures last week of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, it became
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President Bush tapped a former Republican Party chairman to lead the veteran affairs department on Thursday, and the White House confirmed that four other Cabinet secretaries will be staying on.
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The US secretary of health and human services, Tommy Thompson, has resigned, making him the eighth member of US President George W. Bush&#39;s 15-person cabinet to resign since the Nov. 2 election.
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WASHINGTON (CP) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, a moderate voice among cabinet hardliners who remained popular despite a global tide of anti-Americanism sparked by the Iraq war, is stepping down as the top US diplomat.
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Thompson played down a staff member's departure and a New Hampshire supporter's defection Wednesday
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, whose future has been in doubt amid spreading violence and U.S. deaths in Iraq, was asked by President Bush on Friday to remain at the Pentagon in the administration's second term, a senior official said.
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Hollywood actor Fred Thompson has tentatively decided to run for president, according to a long-time friend and political adviser, and has quit his role on the TV crime series "Law & Order."
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President Bush has persuaded Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to stay on amid criticism of the postwar situation in Iraq, a steady presence in a Cabinet undergoing a wholesale makeover.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday he had agreed to stay in his job and hoped US troops would be pulled out of Iraq during the Bush administration&#39;s second four-year term.
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On his way out of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet, Tommy Thompson is warning of new weaknesses in the war on terror. The outgoing Health and Human Services secretary says it would be easy for terrorists to attack
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Actor and former senator Fred D. Thompson confirmed yesterday that he is running for president, ending a political flirtation he has been conducting since March and thrusting himself into the thick of the battle for the Republican nomination.
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President Bush will keep Donald H. Rumsfeld as defense secretary for a second term, administration aides said yesterday, hours after Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson resigned
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell announced his resignation Monday, ending four years of battles with Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about the course of US foreign policy.
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President Bush nominated former New  York police commissioner Bernard Kerik on Friday to head the  U.S. homeland security department and accepted the resignation  of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson as part  of a broad Cabinet overhaul.