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Article: Maybe It's Time for 'Help Wanted' Ads
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 4, 2009
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These are just not great days for the White House personnel
folks. The team, already stalled by various setbacks, including
chronic and seemingly incurable vetting problems for nominees and
potential nominees, has lost two more leading contenders for top-
level jobs.
Several days ago, former Federal Aviation Administration chief
Jane Garvey, the administration's top choice to be deputy secretary
of the Department of Transportation, reluctantly decided not to take
the job.
We're told that Garvey, 65, felt honored to have been considered
for the post at such a historic moment but had wrestled with
personal concerns about accepting the position. She had spent much
of her professional career in ...