Kemp May Seek New Cabinet Post
WASHINGTON — Housing Secretary Jack Kemp said Monday that he would like a new Cabinet post after next year’s presidential election.
Kemp, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, went out of his way in an interview to say that he planned to support a Bush ticket that includes Vice President Dan Quayle.
The former professional football quarterback and nine-term congressman from Upstate New York did not say what he would like to do next.
“Obviously you serve at (the President’s) pleasure, so you have to do pretty much what he asks you to do,†Kemp said. “I have also said parenthetically I don’t want to spend the rest of my life at HUD, so I guess that was kind of a signal that in the second term of Bush’s Administration I might like to do something equally exciting and challenging.â€
Kemp called the Department of Housing and Urban Development a “swamp†when he got the job two years ago and cheerfully went about cleaning it up.
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