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Formal Bush Cabinet Portrait

United States President George W. Bush's cabinet photographed on April 9, 2001 in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. First row, from left, Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Treasury Paul O'Neill, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao. Top row from left,.U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency Christine Todd Whitman, Secretary of Education Roderick Paige, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez, Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony Principi, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mitch Daniels, and Chief of Staff Andrew Card. .Mandatory Photo by Pa

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TICAD: UNICEF releases report on state of Africa's children

YOKOHAMA, Japan - UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman (3rd from L) and other participants in the Tokyo International Conference on African Development pose for a commemorative photo in Yokohama on May 28 holding copies of a report on the state of Africa's children released by the U.N. Children's Fund on the opening day of the three-day meeting.

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UNICEF chief praises Japan, highlights new challenges

LONDON, England - Ann Veneman , executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, poses for photos before her interview with Kyodo News in London on Dec. 13. She thanked Japan for its support of her organization, but warned that the international community needs to do more to help the world's ''invisible'' children.

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U.S. to send mission to Japan on mad cow disease

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei responds to questions from reporters at his ministry Jan. 15 after talks with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman over the telephone. The two agreed to hold talks aimed at resuming Japanese imports of U.S. beef as soon as possible and that Washington will send a mission to Tokyo next week to discuss the issue.

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Japan, U.S. agree on efforts to restore confidence in beef

WASHINGTON, United States - Japanese Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Shoichi Nakagawa (R) and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman (2nd from fore) are in talks in Washington on Jan. 7. They agreed to cooperate in their efforts to restore consumer confidence in U.S. beef products, damaged by the country's first case of mad cow disease. But they ended the meeting without discussing ways to take concrete steps toward lifting Japan's ban on American beef imports or implementing stricter measures to ensure the safety of U.S. cattle.

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Japan, U.S. hold talks over lifting beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - A U.S. delegation, led by David Hegwood (3rd from L), a trade adviser to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, meets with Japanese officials at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on Monday to discuss lifting a ban that Tokyo imposed last week on imports of U.S. beef.

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'Quint' ministers at odds after wrapping up 2-day Nara meeting

NARA, Japan - Agriculture ministers from five major farm trading economies -- (from L to R) Warren Truss of Australia, Lyle Vanclief of Canada, Ann Veneman of the U.S., Tsutomu Takebe of Japan and EU Commissioner Franz Fischler -- pose for a photo session in Nara, western Japan, on July 27. The five ministers remain divided over how to cut farm tariffs and subsidies after their two-day meeting.

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(4)Quint farm ministers meeting begin in Nara

NARA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (L) and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman pose for a photograph prior to their talks in Nara on July 26.

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U.S. farm secretary campaigns for U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman (C) visits a ''summer cooking school'' at an elementary school in Tokyo's Minato Ward on July 25 and demonstrates how to make dishes using U.S. beef in a marketing campaign for the products. Veneman is in Tokyo ahead of a two-day meeting in Nara, western Japan, of farm ministers from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States.

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U.S. farm secretary meets Japanese consumer groups

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman (2nd from R) meets with officials from Japanese consumer groups at the U.S. ambassador's official residence in Tokyo on July 25. Veneman was pushing U.S. beef and rice before attending a farm ministers' meeting in Nara, western Japan, on July 26. (pool photo)

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UNICEF chief praises Japan, highlights new challenges

LONDON, England - Ann Veneman , executive director of the U.N. Children's Fund, poses for photos before her interview with Kyodo News in London on Dec. 13. She thanked Japan for its support of her organization, but warned that the international community needs to do more to help the world's ''invisible'' children. (Kyodo)

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U.S. to send mission to Japan on mad cow disease

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Yoshiyuki Kamei responds to questions from reporters at his ministry Jan. 15 after talks with U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman over the telephone. The two agreed to hold talks aimed at resuming Japanese imports of U.S. beef as soon as possible and that Washington will send a mission to Tokyo next week to discuss the issue. (Kyodo)

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'Quint' ministers at odds after wrapping up 2-day Nara meeting

NARA, Japan - Agriculture ministers from five major farm trading economies -- (from L to R) Warren Truss of Australia, Lyle Vanclief of Canada, Ann Veneman of the U.S., Tsutomu Takebe of Japan and EU Commissioner Franz Fischler -- pose for a photo session in Nara, western Japan, on July 27. The five ministers remain divided over how to cut farm tariffs and subsidies after their two-day meeting. (Kyodo)

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Japan, U.S. hold talks over lifting beef import ban

TOKYO, Japan - A U.S. delegation, led by David Hegwood (3rd from L), a trade adviser to U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, meets with Japanese officials at the Foreign Ministry's Iikura guesthouse in Tokyo on Monday to discuss lifting a ban that Tokyo imposed last week on imports of U.S. beef.(Kyodo)

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(4)Quint farm ministers meeting begin in Nara

NARA, Japan - Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tsutomu Takebe (L) and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman pose for a photograph prior to their talks in Nara on July 26. (Kyodo)

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U.S. farm secretary campaigns for U.S. beef

TOKYO, Japan - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman (C) visits a ''summer cooking school'' at an elementary school in Tokyo's Minato Ward on July 25 and demonstrates how to make dishes using U.S. beef in a marketing campaign for the products. Veneman is in Tokyo ahead of a two-day meeting in Nara, western Japan, of farm ministers from Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan and the United States.