1.14.2009

npr profiles shinseki and chu

From NPR, more profiles on Obama's cabinet picks... Eric Shinseki, the next secretary of veterans affairs, who is best known as the general who questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's strategy in Iraq on the even of the war: Vets Affairs Pick Known For Contradicting Rumsfeld.

And here's another feature on physicist Steven Chu, who goes before the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week to explain how he plans to change the nation's energy economy: Energy Secretary Pick Faces Confirmation Hearing.

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