Rice to Replace Powell

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that a senior administration official in Washington told reporters that President George W. Bush has chosen the national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state. The change of personal will occur on January 20, 2005, when President Bush is sworn into his second term. An announcement was also made on Monday that three other members of the President's cabinet will be resigning, bringing the total resignations since President Bush's reelection to six of the fifteen cabinet members. Rice's aides declined to comment on the speculation that she will in fact become the next secretary of state. Other names being mentioned for the position of secretary of state was U.N. ambassador, John Danforth, a former Missouri senator. Speculation of replacements for the other resigning cabinet members are named, although none of these have been confirmed.