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Kessler Resigns

NPR's Vicky Que reports on Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler's decision to resign his position. The Clinton Administration had asked him to stay through the President's second term, but Kessler decided to step down. Kessler, a pediatrician and an attorney, was the object of widespread acclaim for his pressure on President Clinton to tackle the powerful tobacco industry...but had come under some fire in recent days regarding his expense accounts.

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