Article: Kerik apologizes after withdrawing as homeland security nominee

KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
12-11-2004
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Bernard Kerik apologized to President George W. Bush on Saturday after questions about the immigration status of a housekeeper-nanny he employed led the former New York City police commissioner to withdraw his nomination as homeland security chief.

"I owe the president an enormous amount of gratitude for this consideration. I owe him a great apology that this may have caused him and his administration a big distraction," Kerik said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from his home in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.

"I'm going to spend some time with my family. I'm going to work on ...

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