埃文斯是当初布仆总统竞选委员会主席,也是德克萨斯州汤姆·布朗石油天然气公司的首席执行官,可以说,埃文斯是布什入主白宫的第一功臣。他在就任商务部长之前几乎没有从政经历,但他与布什总统的私人关系异常密切:其妻与布什是同班同学,他本人还是布什与劳拉婚姻的撮合者。美国内阁机构中,商务部长管辖3万多名联邦公务员,主要职责是管理进出口贸易,甚至还负责批准专利。 Evans, the former president of the Presidential Campaign Committee and chief executive of the Texas-based Tom Brown Oil and Gas Corp., can be said that Evans was Bush’s first hero in the White House. He had little political experience before becoming Minister of Commerce, but his personal relationship with President Bush was unusually close: his wife was a classmate with Bush, himself a hand-in-hand with Bush and Laura. Among the U.S. cabinet agencies, the Commerce Minister administers more than 30,000 federal civil servants with the primary responsibility of managing import and export trade and even approving patents.