‘Cleland back in political spotlight’
June 16th, 2009
Former U.S. senator and disability advocate Max Cleland reemerged on the national political scene when he escorted President Obama to a D-Day celebration on the cliffs of Normandy this month, says Jim Galloway in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
A Vietnam veteran and triple amputee, Cleland headed the Department of Veterans Affairs in the Carter administration and has now received final White House approval as secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission. Cleland has been largely absent from politics since he lost a bid for re-election to the Senate from Georgia in 2002.
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