Obama’s Remarks on His Agriculture and Interior Picks

The prepared remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago introducing his picks for the Departments of Agriculture and Interior. Earlier this week, I announced key members of the team that will help us seek new forms of energy to build a new economy, to enhance our security, and to leave our children a planet that’s safer and cleaner. Today, I am pleased to announce two other key advisors and members of this team – Governor Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture and Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior. Together, they will serve as guardians of the American landscape on which the health of our economy and the well-being of our families so heavily depend. One of the great blessings bestowed upon us as Americans is the bounty of our natural environment – from the mountains and parks where we go hiking to the rivers and streams where we go fishing to the forests and fields where the proud tradition of hunting is passed on through the generations. But our wide open spaces are ... (link)