Bush Nominates Cuban-Born Gutierrez to Commerce
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) nominated Kellogg CEO Carlos Gutierrez on Monday as his next commerce secretary.
If confirmed by the Senate, the Cuban-born Gutierrez, 51, will replace Don Evans, one of several Bush cabinet members to leave the administration after the president's re-election earlier this month.
In a White House ceremony, Bush hailed Gutierrez as a "great American success story" who learned English as a bellhop in a Miami hotel and rose through the ranks of Kellogg, starting as a truck driver delivering Frosted Flakes.
At every stage of his career, said Bush, "Carlos motivated others with his energy and his optimism and impressed others with his decency."
Gutierrez was 6 years old when Fidel Castro (news - web sites)'s guerrillas triumphantly rode into Havana, trapping Gutierrez's family in Miami where they were on vacation.
Gutierrez has been chairman of the board of Kellogg Company since April 2000 and chief executive officer since April 1999. He had joined the company in Mexico in 1975.
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Bush returning the favor for all those White House breakfasts of Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles? :shrug: