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Veterans' Affairs Secretary Resigns

Huffington Post   |  HOPE YEN   |   July 17, 2007 12:29 PM

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Secretary of Veterans' Affairs, Jim Nicholson, announced he will be resigning on October 1, 2007, VA Secretary Jim Nicholson abruptly resigned Tuesday after months of the Bush administration struggling to defend charges of shoddy treatment for veterans injured in the Iraq war.

Nicholson, a former Republican National Committee chairman and a Vietnam veteran, was picked by President Bush to head the Veterans Affairs Department in 2005. Planning to return to the private sector, he said his resignation is to take effect no later than Oct. 1.

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