In selecting Gale A. Norton as his choice for secretary of the interior, President-elect George W. Bush has sent a clear message to Americans that the mining, timber and oil industries will be permitted to assault our public lands with minimal fear of federal scrutiny or interference.
Calles served as secretary of foreign relations in the provisional government of Adolfo de la Huerta (1920) and then as secretary of the interior under President Obregón (1920 24).
He said that Senators Schumer and Reid thought of Mr. Udall, the son of Stewart Udall, secretary of the interior under President John F. Kennedy, as their "fair-haired boy".
"That is one of the hardest decisions of the coming days," said Mario Acosta, the minister of the interior and president of the National Emergency Committee.
The last time somebody seriously proposed that — James Watt, the secretary of the interior under President Reagan — he got a bipartisan round of boos from all corners of the West.
She recalled that Little Edie asked her to do an oil portrait of Julius Krug, who was the secretary of the interior under President Truman and was known as Cap.
November 26 , 1861Frankfort, Kentucky November 30, 1944 El Paso, Texas Albert Bacon Fall, (born Nov. 26, 1861, Frankfort, Ky., U.S. died Nov. 30, 1944, El Paso, Texas), U.S. secretary of the interior under President Warren G. Harding; he was the first American to be convicted of a felony committed while holding a Cabinet post.
And more than once he took steps that ran counter to the wishes of other leaders in his party, most recently last year when he appointed Michael Bennet, Denver's former superintendent of schools, to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar, a Democrat who left the Senate to become secretary of the interior under President Obama.
But he also sometimes took bold steps that ran counter to the wishes of some influential state party members, notably last year when he appointed Michael Bennet, who was the superintendent of schools in Denver, to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar, a Democrat who left the Senate to become secretary of the interior under President Obama.
So would the three Republican members of Congress who, in the final hours before the light-rail plan went out for bids in November 2000, postponed the train project that had been championed for years by Bruce Babbitt, secretary of the interior under President Bill Clinton.
His father was Morris Udall, the congressman and onetime presidential candidate, and his uncle was Stewart Udall, the secretary of the interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
