President Obama has a new nominee for general counsel for the Department of the Army, five months after his first nominee withdrew amid questions about his work for mortgage financier Fannie Mae.
The new nominee is Solomon Watson IV, who for 16 years was general counsel to The New York Times Co., a company with First Amendment interests that are at times at odds with the military’s. Watson, who retired from the Times Co. in 2006, served in the U.S. Army as a lieutenant in Military Police Corps from 1966 to 1968 and was awarded the Bronze Star and Army Commendation medals for service while stationed in Vietnam, the White House said in an announcement late Friday.
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