Mr. Morden
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« on: November 09, 2008, 04:31:18 AM » |
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Two things about this:
1) Out of sheer curiosity, I just spent a few minutes going through Google News's archives to see when Clinton named his Cabinet appointees. It turns out he didn't name *any* Cabinet members until Dec. 11th, 1992, more than a month after the election. So don't hold your breath on these appointments. Obama's likely to take some time with this, if history is any guide. (Bush obviously didn't start naming his Cabinet until mid-December, because it took that long for the election to be resolved.) That said, yeah, I've heard that Obama wants to name his Sec. of the Treasury within the next week or so.
2) The Cabinet appointments are usually not named one at a time. They're named in groups, especially for the more minor posts. That is, you might get a single day in which the only appointment made is something important, like Secretary of the Treasury or Attorney General or Secretary of State (Bush's first Cabinet pick was to name Powell as SoS, for example), but you're not going to hold a press conference just so you can announce your pick for Secretary of Veterans' Affairs.
Clinton had something like five different days spread out over two weeks in which he announced a group of Cabinet appointees on each day. You might have a day devoted to naming your national security team or a day devoted to naming your economic team, or to naming random miscellaneous department heads.
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