When President Obama boasted in his televised address on Tuesday about his team of leaders fighting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, he spoke glowingly of his energy secretary, his Coast Guard commander, even his Navy secretary.

Then he turned to Ken Salazar, his interior secretary. "When Ken Salazar became my secretary of the interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency," Mr. Obama said, referring to Mr. Salazar's oversight of the Minerals Management Service, the agency responsible for regulating offshore drilling. "But it's now clear that the problem there ran much deeper, and the pace of reform was just too slow."

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