NATION : New Vatican Envoy Nominated
President Bush today nominated Thomas P. Melady, former president of a Roman Catholic university in Connecticut, as the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Melady, who would succeed Frank Shakespeare, is a former U.S. Department of Education official who was ambassador to Burundi and Uganda in the Nixon Administration.
He was president of Sacred Heart University in Bridgeport, Conn., from 1976 to 1986, and is current president of the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council in Hartford.
Bush also announced that he will nominate William Braniff to a four-year term as U.S. attorney for the southern district of California. Braniff, 47, has been a Justice Department attorney in New Jersey and Southern California since 1970.
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