Hershel W. Gober
Vorlage:Infobox Officeholder Hershel Wayne Gober (born 1936) , a veteran of the Vietnam War, was acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs on two occasions (1997-98 and 2000-01) and Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs from 1993 to 2000, during the administration of Bill Clinton. Gober had been director of the Arkansas Department of Veterans Affairs while Clinton was Governor.
Gober was also briefly Secretary-designate, when Clinton named him on July 13, 1997 to replace Jesse Brown. He, however, withdrawn the nomination before Senate voting on October 27 the same year[1].
During his tenure Gober played an important role in Clinton's (to whom he was a close and longtime aide) Veterans Administration. He headed a delegation traveled to the Vietnam to teek the fullest possible accounting of our men and women still missing in uniform. He was also active in many causes, i.e. improving health care and hospitals for veterans, and other institutions[2].