Burnley to Resign as Reagan’s Term Ends
Transportation Secretary James H. Burnley IV said Monday that, even if George Bush is elected President, he will resign his post at the end of the Reagan Administration and return to his law practice.
Burnley, who succeeded Elizabeth Hanford Dole in October, 1987, has campaigned for Bush during recent months but said he would not stay in his Cabinet post if Bush offered the job.
“I have a son going to college, and I have to pay the tuition,” he told United Press International in an interview.
Burnley, 40, was a partner in a Greensboro, N.C., law firm before joining the Reagan Administration in 1981 as director of Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA.
He joined the Transportation Department in 1983.
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