3.11.2006
Interior Secretary Norton to Step Down (CNN.com)
Friday, March 10, 2006; Posted: 3:46 p.m. EST (20:46 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigned Friday. She will leave her post at the end of March, the Department of the Interior said.
Norton, 51, held the job for five years. She is the first woman to serve as Interior secretary.
In a publicly released letter to President Bush, Norton said she planned to return to private life.
"Now I feel it is time for me to leave this mountain you gave me to climb, catch my breath, then set my sights on new goals to achieve in the private sector," she wrote in the letter. "Hopefully, my husband and I will end up closer to the mountains we love in the West."
Norton also thanked Bush and credited the department for "great work in the face of hurricanes, record-setting wildfires and droughts, acrimonious litigation and expanded post 9/11 security responsibilities."
(More ... CNN.com - Interior Secretary Norton to step down - Mar 10, 2006) ¶ 19:54
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton resigned Friday. She will leave her post at the end of March, the Department of the Interior said.
Norton, 51, held the job for five years. She is the first woman to serve as Interior secretary.
In a publicly released letter to President Bush, Norton said she planned to return to private life.
"Now I feel it is time for me to leave this mountain you gave me to climb, catch my breath, then set my sights on new goals to achieve in the private sector," she wrote in the letter. "Hopefully, my husband and I will end up closer to the mountains we love in the West."
Norton also thanked Bush and credited the department for "great work in the face of hurricanes, record-setting wildfires and droughts, acrimonious litigation and expanded post 9/11 security responsibilities."
(More ... CNN.com - Interior Secretary Norton to step down - Mar 10, 2006) ¶ 19:54
