Dean: I Wanted to Be Health Sec

But ex-DNC chair says Obama's choice will do 'fine'
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 2, 2009 4:10 AM CST

On Feb. 3, MSNBC's Chris Matthews asks Sen. Claire McCaskill why Howard Dean is not being named to replace Tom Daschle as the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean says he made no secret of his desire to be in Barack Obama's Cabinet. "I was pretty clear that I would have liked to have been Secretary of Health and Human Services," he tells the Huffington Post. As for the president's pick, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, Dean said: "She is a very nice person and I think she will be fine."
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