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Bush administration to nominate corporate executives to head military
services
By Associated Press, 3/3/2001 03:18 WASHINGTON (AP) Three corporate
executives will be nominated by the Bush administration to be the secretaries
of the Air Force, Army and Navy, The Washington Times reported Saturday. The
three men have been interviewed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and
the White House is expected to announce next week that it will send their
names to the Senate for confirmation, the Times quoted unidentified sources
as saying. Gordon R. England, 63, who retired last week as a vice president
at General Dynamics Corp., will be nominated as Navy secretary, the Times
said. England was responsible for the company's information systems and
international programs. The newspaper also said James G. Roche, 61, a vice
president at Northrop Grumman Corp., has been picked to head the Air Force.
Roche, a retired Navy captain, worked in the State Department during the
Reagan administration and later was Democratic staff director for the Senate
Armed Services Committee. The nominee for Army secretary will be Thomas E.
White, 57, a retired Army general and an executive with Enron Corp., a
Houston-based energy company, the Times said. White was executive assistant
to Secretary of State Colin Powell when he was chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. The newspaper quoted White as saying that he had been interviewed
by Rumsfeld on Friday, but nothing has been confirmed. Roche declined to
comment and England was unavailable.
