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Former Jeb Bush aide to head Tampa firm

By Times Staff
Published June 6, 2005

Kathleen Shanahan, former chief of staff for Gov. Jeb Bush, will become chief executive officer at WRS Infrastructure & Environment Inc. in Tampa on July 1.

She succeeds Charles R. Cox, who has been CEO since 2001. Cox will remain as chairman of the board.

Since leaving Bush's staff in late 2003, Shanahan has been a strategy consultant for the New York Stock Exchange. Her public sector experience includes being chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, deputy secretary for the California Trade Commerce Agency and in multiple White House and National Security Council roles.

Her private sector experience includes time spent as senior vice president of public affairs for Paine Webber Inc. and in senior roles at Hill and Knowlton USA and the Wexler Group.

BAGDAD - An 8-year-old Panhandle boy drowned after his 7-year-old brother shoved him into the Blackwater River.

Alpha Lee Williams landed in about 12 feet of water after falling off a boat ramp into the river. He sank and did not resurface. He did not know how to swim, investigators said.

It took Santa Rosa County rescuers nearly an hour to find the body.

Authorities are treating the death as an accident.

The boys were playing in the area where people launch their boats, called the "Oyster Pile," by local residents.

Bagdad fire Chief Claude Dunlap said it was the first drowning in more than 30 years in that section of the river.

MIAMI - E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA operative who recruited five men to break into the Watergate hotel, has criticized the man who came forward as Deep Throat.

Hunt, 86, was imprisoned for 33 months after the Watergate scandal forced President Richard Nixon from office. W. Mark Felt, 91, was the key source in the Washington Post's Watergate investigation.

"Nothing that Mr. Felt did was acceptable. It was traitorous of him to accept a paycheck from the federal government and do what he did," Hunt said in an interview at his suburban Miami home. His remarks were published Sunday in the Miami Herald .

Hunt said he was never really curious about Deep Throat's identity and hopes the whole thing will end.

Hunt had been working informally for the Nixon White House's "plumbers" unit, set up to help stop government information leaks, when Nixon asked him to work on the Watergate break-in.

Investigative reporter Bob Woodward has said that Felt helped him link Hunt to the break-in. Hunt's name had been found in the address book of one of the burglars.

--Staff and wire reports

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