What would your all-time Cabinet be?

[hawkeye59]

Basically, you can pick any nonfictional American, alive or dead.
State: George Marshall
Defense: Ike
Treasury: Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General: Daniel Webster (Atticus Finch if we could choose fictional.)
Interior: Mo Udall
Agriculture: Al Gore, Sr.
Commerce: Hoover
Labor: Eugene V. Debs
HHS: Ted Kennedy
HUD: Tom Bradley
Transportation:  Lee Iacocca (Fmr. CEO of Chrysler and President of Ford.)
Energy: Denis Hayes (founder of Earth Day.)
Education: John Dewey (educational reformer)
Veterans Affairs:  Max Cleland
Homeland Security: Russ Feingold

[justW353]

State:  George C. Marshall
Defense:  Dwight D. Eisenhower
Treasury: Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General:  Thomas Dewey
Interior:  Stewart L. Udall
Agriculture:  John C. Culver
Commerce:  Herbert C. Hoover
Labor:  Frances C. Perkins
Health and Human Services:  Edward M. Kennedy
Housing and Urban Development:
Transportation:  Raymond T. Rybak
Energy: 
Education: 
Veterans Affairs:  Joseph M. Cleland
Homeland Security: William J. Bratton (former NYC and Boston Police Commissioner, LA Police Chief)

[hawkeye59]

anyone else?

[Psychic Octopus]

I'll have to give this one some thought.

[The Mikado]

SecState: Charles Lindbergh
SecDef: Donald Rumsfeld
SecTreas: Richard Mellon Scaife
Atty General: J. Edgar Hoover
SecInt: George Armstrong Custer
SecAg: William T. Sherman
SecCommerce: Earl Browder
SecLabor: Henry Clay Frick
SecHHS: Jack Kevorkian
SecHUD: Robert Moses
SecTrans: Also Robert Moses
SecEng: H. L. Hunt
SecEd: Michele Bachmann
VA: Jane Fonda
DOHS: Benedict Arnold

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

President: Gary Johnson
Vice President: Rand Paul
Attorney General: Justice Andrew Napolitano
Secretary of State: Robert A Taft
Secretary of Defense: Robert E. Lee
Secretary of Treasury: Peter Schiff
Secretary of Commerce: Henry Cabot Lodge Sr
Secretary of Agriculture: Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Secretary of Interior: Barry Goldwater
Secretary of Health and Human Services: Paul Ryan

[Conservative frontier]

Here is my cabinet with my positions


State: George H.W Bush
Defense: Ike
Treasury: Ronald Reagan
Attorney General: Atticus Fitch (I know he's fake, but still)
Interior: George Washington
Agriculture: Steve King
Commerce: Hoover
Labor: Calvin Coolidge
HHS: The National Right to Life
HUD: Jack Kemp
Transportation:  Gerald Ford
Energy: Sarah Palin
Education: Laura Bush
Veterans Affairs:  Chuck Hagel
Homeland Security: NONE

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

State: Adlai Stevenson
Treasury: No clue
Defense: George Marshall
Interior: Harold L. Ickes
Attorney General: Thomas E. Dewey
Agriculture: Henry A. Wallace
Commerce: No clue
Labor: No Clue
Health: Lyndon B. Johnson
HUD: No clue
Veteran Affairs: John Kerry
HS: No clue

[Free Palestine]

Secretary of State: Calvin Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury: Alan Greenspan
Secretary of Defense: Robert Taft
Attorney General: Robert Yates
Secretary of the Interior: Russell Means
Secretary of Energy: Jimmy Carter
Chief of Staff: Thomas Jefferson

[CatoMinor]

President: Gary Johnson
VP: Randall Paul
Sec of State: Thomas Jefferson
SecDef: General Patraeus
SecNav: John Paul Jones
SecArmy: General Herman Haupt
Attorney General: Andrew Napolitano
Sec of treas: Peter Schiff
Sec of Ag: Tom Vilsack
Sec of Rock: Tre Cool

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

President: Ron Paul (R-TX)
Vice President: Eugene J. McCarthy (D-MN)
Secretary of State: Robert A. Taft (R-OH)
Secretary of Defense: Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
Secretary of the Treasury: Peter Schiff (R-CT)
Attorney General: Andrew Napolitano (R-NJ)
Secretary of the Interior: Gary Johnson (R-NM)
Secretary of Agriculture: Thomas Jefferson (DR-VA)
Secretary of Commerce: Calvin Coolidge (R-MA)
Secretary of Labor: Dorothy Day (I-NY)
Secretary of HHS: Rand Paul (R-KY)
Secretary of HUD: Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)
Secretary of Transportation: Bill Kauffman (I-NY)
Secretary of Energy: Ralph Nader (I-CT)
Secretary of Education: Sargent Shriver (D-MD)
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: George S. McGovern (D-SD)
Secretary of Homeland Security: Lysander Spooner  (I-MA)
Chief of Staff: Jesse Ventura (I-MN)
Press Secretary: Vince Vaughn (R-MN)
National Security Advisor: Wayne Morse (D-OR)
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Douglas MacArthur (R-AR)
Ambassador to the UN: Jimmy Carter (D-GA)

[hawkeye59]

bump
Plus my original picks

Basically, you can pick any nonfictional American, alive or dead. You can use 1 fictional person, but only for cabinet-level picks.
VP:
State: George Marshall
Defense: Ike
Treasury: Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General: Daniel Webster (Atticus Finch if we could choose fictional.)
Interior: Mo Udall
Agriculture: Al Gore, Sr.
Commerce: Hoover
Labor: Eugene V. Debs
HHS: Ted Kennedy
HUD: Tom Bradley
Transportation:  Lee Iacocca (Fmr. CEO of Chrysler and President of Ford.)
Energy: Denis Hayes (founder of Earth Day.)
Education: John Dewey (educational reformer)
Veterans Affairs:  Max Cleland
Homeland Security: Russ Feingold

Press Secretary: Jon Stewart
Ambassador to the UN: Adlai Stevenson
Chairman of the Joint Cheifs of Staff: George Washington
Chief of Staff: Leo McGarry
EPA Administrator: Al Gore, Jr.
VP: Robert F. Kennedy

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Badass international edition:


Nightmare and most horrible cabinet ever!


Secretary of State: Joachim von Ribbentrop


Secretary of the Treasury: Walther Funk


Secretary of Defense: Wilhelm Keitel


Attorney General: Roland Freisler


Sectetary of the Interior: Alfred Rosenberg


Secretary of Labor: Fritz Sauckel


Secretary of Health and Human Services: Josef Mengele


Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Erich von dem Bach


Secretary of Transportation: Adolf Eichmann


Secretary of Education: Julius Streicher


Secretary of Homeland Security: Ernst Kaltenbrunner


Vice President: Rudolf Hess


White House Chief of Staff: Otto Meissner


White House Press Secretary: Joseph Goebbels


Director of the FBI: Hermann Müller


Drug Czar: Hermann Goering

[hawkeye59]

Badass international edition:


Nightmare and most horrible cabinet ever!


Secretary of State: Joachim von Ribbentrop


Secretary of the Treasury: Walther Funk


Secretary of Defense: Wilhelm Keitel


Attorney General: Roland Freisler


Sectetary of the Interior: Alfred Rosenberg


Secretary of Labor: Fritz Sauckel


Secretary of Health and Human Services: Josef Mengele


Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: Erich von dem Bach


Secretary of Transportation: Adolf Eichmann


Secretary of Education: Julius Streicher


Secretary of Homeland Security: Ernst Kaltenbrunner


Vice President: Rudolf Hess


White House Chief of Staff: Otto Meissner


White House Press Secretary: Joseph Goebbels


Director of the FBI: Hermann Müller


Drug Czar: Hermann Goering

[Derek]

Does it have to be someone who has held the position before?

President- Ronald Reagan
Vice President- Barry Goldwater
Secretary of State- George H.W. Bush
Secretary of Treasury- John D. Rockefeller
Secretary of Defense- Dwight Eisenhower
Attorney General- John Ashcroft?
Secretary of Interior- Teddy Roosevelt
Secretary of Education- Jeb Bush
Secretary of Homeland Security- Joseph McCarthy
Secretary of Veterans' Affairs- John McCain
Secretary of Labor- Dick Gephardt?
Secretary of Transportation- Henry Ford?
Secretary of Housing-
Secretary of Health and Human Services- Jonas Salk
Secretary of Commerce-
Secretary of Energy-
Secretary of Agriculture-

Let me think on this. I like this exchange.

[hawkeye59]

No.
MCCARTHY?!!? ASHCROFT?
HENRY FORD?

[Derek]

Yes McCarthy gets a bad rap in schools and I'm glad to see Texas stand up and teach our children that there were Russian spies in this country and while a little far out, McCarthy meant well.

[hawkeye59]

Yes McCarthy gets a bad rap in schools and I'm glad to see Texas stand up and teach our children that there were Russian spies in this country and while a little far out, McCarthy meant well.

Still, HOMELAND SECURITY?

[Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey]

President: Gary Johnson
Vice President: Rand Paul
Secretary of State: Ronald Reagan
Secretary of Defense: Barry Goldwater, Sr.
Secretary of the Treasury: Ron Paul
Attorney General: Calvin Coolidge
Secretary of the Interior: Mark Hatfield
Secretary of Agriculture: Robert Taft
Secretary of Commerce: Warren Harding
Secretary of Labor: Paul Tsongas
Secretary of HHS: Jerry Brown
Secretary of HUD: Jack Kemp
Secretary of Transportation: Mitch Daniels
Secretary of Energy: Sarah Palin
Secretary of Education: Bobby Jindal
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Colin Powell
Secretary of Homeland Security: Dwight Eisenhower

[Хahar 🤔]

Yes McCarthy gets a bad rap in schools and I'm glad to see Texas stand up and teach our children that there were Russian spies in this country and while a little far out, McCarthy meant well.

No.

[justW353]

No.
MCCARTHY?!!? ASHCROFT?
HENRY FORD?

I do agree with Ford.  He was a Nazi, but he was a smart Nazi.

[Derek]

Here is my current one. I have a forum for who ppl would put in their current administration.

State- Newt Gingrich
Treasury- Mitch Daniels
Defense- David Patraeus
Justice- Charlie Crist
Interior- Mike Huckabee
Energy- Sarah Palin
Housing- Bobby Jindal
Transportation- Tim Pawlenty
Agriculture- Tom Vilsack
Education- Jeb Bush
Homeland Security- Rudi Guiliani
Commerce- Steve Forbes
Labor- Mitt Romney
Health and Human Services- Bill Frist
Veterans' Affairs- John McCain

[hawkeye59]

bump

[hawkeye59]

anyone else?

[hawkeye59]

anyone else?