Gale Norton
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Gale Ann Norton is an American politician and attorney who served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Republican Party
Norton in 2001
Gale Norton stands by President George W. Bush and other dignitaries at the signing ceremony of a conservation bill in 2002.
Norton with Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts in 2005
Designated survivor
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In the United States, a designated survivor is a person in the presidential line of succession who is kept distant from others in the line when they are gathered together, to reduce the chance that ev
Barack Obama delivers the 2011 State of the Union Address to members of the House and Senate, cabinet members and Supreme Court judges. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was the designated survivor and did not attend. He did not disclose where he spent the evening, except that he was not in Washington, D.C.