Jones» case is different from those of two career foreign service officers, former undersecretaries of state Patrick Kennedy, the department's top management official, and Thomas Countryman, its top arms control officer, who had risen to politically appointed jobs and were asked to leave in January. (businessinsider.com)
Dr. Ned Rifkin, former undersecretary for art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., has been appointed director of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. (news.utexas.edu)
But were Bush to emerge as the nominee of his party, former undersecretary Smith said he doubted that the GOP grassroots would make his support for the Common Core a major issue in the general election. (edsource.org)