Bush Picks Vatican Envoy
From Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Bush said Friday that he will nominate Thomas P. Melady, former president of a Catholic university in Connecticut, as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Melady, who would succeed Frank Shakespeare, was ambassador to Burundi and Uganda in the Richard M. Nixon Administration.
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