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Salazar to leave Obama Cabinet

By JOHN M. BRODER THE NEW YORK TIMES

Posted: January 17, 2013 at 1:42 a.m.

Ken Salazar, the lawyer and rancher who took over the scandal ridden Interior Department at the outset of the Obama administration, said Wednesday that he would step down in March to return to his home in Colorado.

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