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Article: DEPARTURE NOT UNEXPECTED, OFFICIALS SAY Veterans affairs leader plans to resign Brown credited for getting U.S. agency more funding
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 8, 1997
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Jesse Brown, an ex-Marine wounded in
Vietnam who won substantial spending increases for the department
under President Clinton, is stepping down.
Brown, 53, has been a lifelong advocate for those who risked their
lives and limbs to defend the country. His resignation is effective
July 1.
Officials said Brown's departure was not unexpected. Near the end
of Clinton's first term, Brown told then-White House Chief of Staff
Leon E. Panetta that he did not expect to remain in the cabinet for
long, the officials said. He is the eighth member of the original
Clinton cabinet to leave or take another job since the end of the