Obama to Nominate Ex-Procter & Gamble Chief to Lead Troubled Veterans Agency
President Obama intends on Monday to nominate Bob McDonald, a former chief of Procter & Gamble, to be the next secretary of veterans affairs, administration officials said Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Obama hopes that Mr. McDonald, a West Point graduate, can turn around an agency whose health system that has been rocked by allegations of mismanagement and cover-ups of long patient waiting times.
The president last month accepted the resignation of Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general tapped in 2009 to lead the agency. By appointing Mr. McDonald, Mr. Obama is betting that a new leader can overcome deep bureaucratic problems and the mismanagament that stemmed, in part, from a surge in the number of veterans needing care.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/bob-mcdonald-veterans-affairs-obama.html?emc=edit_na_20140629
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