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The National Association of Evangelicals has chosen a former top official of the Salvation Army to serve as its new executive director. W. Todd Bassett, the former national commander of the Salvation Army, has been a member of the NAE’s executive committee for four years. “We’re thrilled to have him do this,” said interim NAE president Leith Anderson, a Minnesota pastor. Officials of the umbrella organization explained that Bassett is not succeeding Ted Haggard, who resigned last November as president amid a sex and drug scandal.