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49% say no. the president already has a coast guard admiral overseeing the gulf crisis. now he's brought in the navy's secretary, the former mississippi governor ray mavis to lead the environmental and economic recovery effort along the coast. but mavis isn't giving up his day job and that's sparking serious criticism out there. let's go to our senior white house correspondent ed henry who is monitoring what's going on. what are they saying about the white house? the navy secretary, that's a full-time job overseeing the navy, marine corps, and now is also going to undertake this effort along the gulf coast? >> reporter: that's right. a full-time job obviously with two wars going on overseas. the white house now facing some criticism because ray mavis is going to keep his day job essentially. i just got off the phone with a spokeswoman at the defenders of wildlife who was saying, look. this is going to take years, maybe decades to clean up the gulf, clean up the environment. get the wildlife back. and they think this should be a full-time job.

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