Eric Shinseki resigned Friday as the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, leaving behind the daunting task of repairing a broken health care system. CNN values your feedback 1.

Shinseki “is deeply disappointed in the fact that bad news did not get to him and that the structures weren’t in place for him to identify this problem quickly and fix it,” the president said.

1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Retired U.S. Army Gen. Eric Shinseki, 34th U.S. Army chief of staff, speaks during the Quarterly Moral Leadership Luncheon held at Memorial Chapel Oct. 1 on ...

Eric Shinseki has served his country honorably as a twice-wounded officer in Vietnam, as Army chief of staff and finally as President Obama’s secretary of veterans affairs. But his maddeningly ...

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki made an impassioned case Thursday to Democratic lawmakers and veterans groups that he can repair the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as calls for ...

The good news for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is that there isn't yet an outright stampede of Democrats away from him, even as some call for his resignation.

When Eric. K. Shinseki was a cadet at West Point, he was forced to repeat his first academic year because an athletic injury landed him in the hospital and caused him to miss too many classes.

Eric Shinseki took charge of the nation's second-largest bureaucracy at the Department of Veterans Affairs five years ago cloaked in the kind of virtue and integrity most politicians would bleed ...

Those who know Eric Shinseki chuckled when their laconic friend began his Army retirement speech in 2003 with this: “‘My name is Shinseki, and I am a soldier.” It was pure Shinseki, longtime ...