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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Francis)
Tue Dec 17 09:09:05 2002
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 09:07:19 -0500
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From: Michael Francis <mfranci@mindspring.com>
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National Fall Pledge Class Namesake, Fall 1996. From FOXNews.com.
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Bush Keen on Kean
Monday, December 16, 2002
WASHINGTON — President Bush named former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, a
moderate Republican with a record of bipartisan cooperation, to replace Henry
Kissinger as head of a new investigation of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks.
"We're not going to leave any stone unturned," said Kean, who knew several
people who died in the World Trade Center.
Kean will lead a commission of five Republicans and five Democrats authorized
to spend up to 18 months looking into the attacks, delving into intelligence
issues as well as other areas such as aviation security and immigration.
His appointment came three days after Kissinger, the former secretary of
state, resigned amid concerns about possible conflicts of interest involving
his business clients and demands by some Democratic lawmakers that he identify
all those clients.
"I got the call last night, Sunday night," Kean said. "I feel like a ton of
bricks fell on me. The only instructions I got from the White House is to do
the best job I could and to be bipartisan."
Kean said the commission will be an opportunity for the country to draw
together as it did after the attacks, and he promised to deliver a
comprehensive study that will be made public. "I lost a number of good friends
on 9-11. So did a lot of us in this area," Kean said during a news conference
at Drew University in Madison, N.J. "At this point in time the country needs
to come together."
Bush, in a statement, said that Kean is "respected for integrity, fairness and
good judgment. I am confident he will work to make the commission's
investigation thorough. It is important that we uncover every detail and learn
every lesson of Sept. 11." Bush initially resisted forming the commission.
Kean, 67, is president of Drew University, about 30 miles from New York City.
He was New Jersey's governor from 1982 to 1990.
He serves on several corporate boards, including those of the international
petroleum company Amerada Hess Corp., the Pepsi Bottling Group and Aramark
Corp., which manages food and support services at office buildings, sports
arenas and other facilities.
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-Michael L. Francis
Section 72 Chair
Alumnus, Delta Kappa #700, Emory University
Advisor, Beta Zeta, University of Georgia
