President Obama plans to announce Monday his nomination of Robert A. McDonald, the retired CEO of Procter & Gamble, as the next secretary of the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. McDonald's nomination will be one month from when Eric Shinseki resigned from the same post amid allegations that patients were waiting months before receiving care.

Now that Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has fallen on his sword, the agency can finally give our growing population of ill and aging vets the care they deserve, right? Not according to the many frazzled VA employees who have sent Gawker their stories. Here's one.

At a press conference this morning, President Obama announced that he has accepted the resignation of embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. His resignation comes after the release of a series of damning reports about exceedingly long wait times for veterans seeking medical care.

In a morning press conference, President Obama called for congressional cooperation and a comprehensive review of the VA's operations amid allegations that many of its hospitals faked records to to delay treatment of sick veterans. "If there is misconduct," he said, "it will be punished."