more politics
May. 21st, 2003 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Via Daily Kos: Christie Whitman, former governor of New Jersey, has resigned as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Here's a sympathetic profile of Cooper from the Duke alumni magazine in 1996, when she was vice president of Environment and Regulatory Affairs for the American Forest and Paper Association.
One name mentioned by administration officials as a possible successor was ... Josephine Cooper, president of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers.James's response: "i guess whitman just wasn't obvious enough. after all, not everybody's been to new jersey."
Here's a sympathetic profile of Cooper from the Duke alumni magazine in 1996, when she was vice president of Environment and Regulatory Affairs for the American Forest and Paper Association.