NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Museum Director to Lead Park Service
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Clinton Administration has selected historian and museum director Roger Kennedy to head the National Park Service. The White House announced that President Clinton picked Kennedy, 66, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, as director of the nation’s 367 parks, national monuments and historic areas. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt initially offered the job to Tom Brokaw, anchorman of the “NBC Nightly News,” and to former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly.
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