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Obama to Nominate Ex-Procter & Gamble Chief to Lead Troubled Veterans Agency

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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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