Card served in President Ronald Reagan's administration as Special Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and subsequently as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, where he was liaison to governors, statewide elected officials, state legislators, mayors and other elected officials.
From 1992 until 1993, Card served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Transportation under President George H. Bush.
Later that year, Secretary Card directed President Bush's transition office during the transition from the Bush Administration to the Clinton Administration.
U.S. TransportationSecretary Norman Mineta, who spearheaded an unprecedented overhaul of transportation security after the September 11 attacks, announced his resignation on Friday.
He is the nation's longest serving transportationsecretary and has been the most visible as well.
The Transportation Department was thrown into the global spotlight by the attacks on New York and Washington.