February 14, 2005
John B. Bellinger III, of Virginia, to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State, vice William Howard Taft, IV.
R. Nicholas Burns, of Massachusetts, to be an Under Secretary of State (Political Affairs), vice Marc Isaiah Grossman, resigned.
C. David Welch, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Near Eastern Affairs), vice William J. Burns.
George W. Bush, Nominations Sent to the Senate Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/281735