Rumsfeld staying, Thompson leaving Cabinet

Saturday, December 4, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld -- scarred by postwar violence and prison scandal in Iraq -- accepted President Bush's request that he remain for the second-term Cabinet. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson resigned Friday, warning as he left of a possible terror attack on the nation's food supply.

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