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President Bush’s envoy to the United Nations, John Danforth, announced he is stepping down. He informed Bush of his decision in a Nov. 22 letter that became public Thursday.
The 68-year-old former senator from Missouri wrote Bush that he wanted to return to private life to spend time with his wife, Sally, in St. Louis.
He had been mentioned as a successor to Secretary of State Colin Powell, but Bush picked Condoleezza Rice.
Danforth has been asked to serve presidents of both parties. He led a Clinton-era investigation of the Waco Branch Davidian affair, and Bush named him special envoy for peace in Sudan. At the UN, Danforth replaced John Negroponte.
