Bush Nominates Kerik; Thompson Resigns
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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.
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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik withdrew as President Bush&#39;s nominee for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security last night, saying
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President Bush on Friday nominated Bernard Kerik to lead the Department of Homeland Security, his latest move to restock his Cabinet for the second term.
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President Bush has picked as his  homeland security secretary former New York City police  commissioner Bernard Kerik, who helped the city respond to the  Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and trained Iraqi police,  administration officials said.
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The decision to withdraw his  nomination as U.S. homeland security secretary over a personal  controversy was made by Bernard Kerik himself, the White House  and Kerik said on Saturday.
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Bernard Kerik abruptly withdrew his nomination as secretary of homeland security last week amid a growing controversy over his background and suitability for the job.
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President Bush reached into his  inner circle on Tuesday and nominated a trusted confidante,  national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin  Powell as secretary of state.
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Ex-NYC Police Chief Bernard Kerik has been named the new Homeland Security chief. Is he a good choice? WASHINGTON -- President Bush asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who directed American military forces
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday nominated a retired federal judge and law-and-order conservative to replace embattled Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general.
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This image released by the White House on Friday, Dec. 10, 2004, shows Bernard Kerik&#39;s letter to President Bush asking to withdraw as nominee for secretary of the Homeland Security Department.
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Bernard Kerik&#39;s nomination to run the Homeland Security Department shows President Bush wants the no-nonsense former police chief to settle turf wars in the sprawling
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President George Bush announced Wednesday his nomination of current White House Legal Counsel Alberto Gonzales to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft, who submitted his resignation on Tuesday.
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President Bush announced today the nomination of Bernie Kerik to succeed Tom Ridge as homeland security secretary. The former New York City police commissioner
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WASHINGTON The Bush administration has reopened its search for a homeland security chief after the surprise withdrawal of its first choice, Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner.
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The swift demise of Bernard Kerik as President Bush&#39;s choice to head the Department of Homeland Security has left egg on a lot of faces.
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The murk surrounding Bernard Kerik, whose nomination to be homeland security chief by President George Bush fell apart a week ago, thickened yesterday amid reports he used an apartment
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President Bush on Tuesday nominated two individuals to replace retiring jurists on federal courts in the Washington area.