Kenneth Feinberg, whom President Obama has appointed to oversee executive pay in the corporate world, has been elected chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, reports The Boston Globe.

Mr. Feinberg, a lawyer and former chief of staff for Sen. Edward Kennedy, succeeds Paul G. Kirk Jr., who was recently appointed to fill the late senator’s seat until a special election in January. In June he was named the Treasury Department’s special master for executive compensation at firms that accepted federal bailout funds.

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