{"id":8795,"date":"2011-03-01T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utu.org\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:37:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T20:37:30","slug":"new-ns-board-member-has-familiar-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/new-ns-board-member-has-familiar-name\/","title":{"rendered":"New NS board member has familiar name","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles has been elected a member of Norfolk Southern’s board of directors.<\/p>\n
His name is most associated with President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, on which he served as co-chair with former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.).<\/p>\n
Bowles twice lost bids to become a U.S. senator from North Carolina. In 2002, he lost a bid to succeed Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), losing to Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.); and in 2004, seeking the seat of John Edwards (D-N.C.), who had resigned, Bowles was defeated by Richard Burr (R-N.C.)<\/p>\n
A retired president of the University of North Carolina, Bowles also serves on the boards of General Motors, the Wall Street firm of Morgan Stanley and a North Carolina insurance company.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles has been elected a member of Norfolk Southern’s board of directors. His name is most associated with President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility, on which he served as co-chair with former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.). Bowles twice lost bids to become a U.S. senator […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,45,9,18],"tags":[],"member_types":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n