MSNBC & CNN: The White House has announced the resignation of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, who is the only Democrat in GWB’s Cabinet.
According to the USDOT:
Norman Y. Mineta is the longest serving Secretary in the history of the U.S. Department of Transportation, becoming the 14th Secretary of Transportation on January 25, 2001.
He was also the first Asian-American Cabinet member during the Clinton administration, and the first Cabinet member to switch directly from a Democratic to a Republican Cabinet. In December 2004, Secretary Mineta accepted President Bush’s invitation to continue his service in the Cabinet during the President’s second term.
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Secretary Mineta and his family were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry forced from their homes and into internment camps during World War II.