Bush Nominates Spellings for Education Post
Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:09 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush on Wednesday nominated a longtime close aide, White House domestic policy adviser Margaret Spellings, as the next education secretary.
Spellings, 46, would replace Rod Paige in the top education post in Bush's second-term Cabinet. Paige's resignation was announced on Monday.

She became the third White House insider to be nominated for a top Cabinet position. White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales was picked as attorney general and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state.