Hyphen
Published on Hyphen (https://hyphenmagazine.com)

Home > Mineta Resigning from Bush Cabinet

Mineta Resigning from Bush Cabinet

Harry Mok - June 23, 2006

Mineta has headed the Transportation Department since President Bush took office in 2001. Mineta was also a member of former President Clinton's adminstration as commerce secretary and was the first Asian American [1] to hold a cabinet post.

During his time at the Transportation Department, Mineta oversaw the creation of the Transportation Security Adminstration after the Sept. 11 attacks. He is the longest-serving transportation chief since the department was created in 1967.

As a congressman from San Jose, Mineta spearheaded the effort to pass the redress law for 120,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.

Mineta's had a wonderful career [2] and done some great things for Asian Americans and all Americans.


Source URL:https://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2006/6/23/mineta-resigning-bush-cabinet

Links
[1] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/07/04/ED39111.DTL [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta