February 11, 2009 - 03:04 am
News Feed: Colorado

Salazar gets clean start

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WASHINGTON — Newly minted Interior Secretary Ken Salazar named former U.S. Attorney Tom Strickland as his chief of staff Wednesday, bringing in a high-powered ex-prosecutor to help him clean up the troubled department.

Salazar was sworn in as interior secretary at a White House ceremony Wednesday morning after resigning as Colorado's senior senator at 5 p.m. Tuesday. He spent his first day meeting with assistant secretaries and senior staff members.

He has promised to assemble a team of marquee names to help him run a department that lords over millions of acres of public lands in the West. And in Strickland, the new interior secretary has picked a wily political operator who knows how to navigate the corridors of Washington.

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