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Article: Kerik apologizes to president: White House may look beyond previous candidates for post
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- December 12, 2004
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WASHINGTON - The White House renewed its search for a homeland
security chief Saturday as the candidate President Bush thought ideal
apologized for an immigration problem involving a family housekeeper
that forced him to withdraw.
"I owe the president ... a great apology that this may have caused
him and his administration a big distraction," Bernard Kerik said in
a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Speaking from his home in Franklin Lakes, N.J., the 49-year-old
Kerik said he had discovered a few days ago that he did not pay all
required taxes for a family nanny-housekeeper and that the woman may
have been in the country illegally.
The surprise withdrawal by the former New York ...