Cabinets That Never Were

[LastMcGovernite]

This is my first time starting a topic here, so be gentle!

I've always found it fascinating to wonder who would have been in the cabinets of alternate presidents.  This idea came to me a few years ago in a dream, where I was camping in the Adirondacks and met a very old Thomas Dewey, his trademark mustache white with age, and I asked him who would have been in his administration.  Dewey, to my surprise, said "McCain!" (I assume he met McCain's grandfather, if he were elected in 1944, or McCain's father!)

So, here's your chance- who, in your judgment, would have been in the cabinets of people who lost the presidential election?  Who would have had a seat at the table in the Alf Landon administration?  Who would be running the departments under Walter Mondale's watch? 

To get the ball rolling, here is my projection of the...

George McGovern Cabinet:

-Secretary of State: Frank Church
-Secretary of the Treasury: James Tobin
-Secretary of Defense: George Ball
-Attorney General: Thomas Eagleton*
-Secretary of the Interior: Frank Morrison
-Secretary of Commerce: Henry Kimmelman
-Secretary of Labor: Leonard Woodcock
-Secretary of HEW: Patricia Robert Harris
-Secretary of HUD: Shirley Chissholm
-UN Ambassador: Sargent Shriver*
-NSA: Gene LaRoque

* This scenario assumes that McGovern never asked Eagleton to be his running-mate (and, to be sure, there is almost no plausible way McGovern could have won after the Eagleton affair).  Let's assume, for this purpose, that Muskie or Mondale was the Veep.  Eagleton was clearly a competent senator and I fine Missouri Attorney General, and given that he's 8th or 9th in line for the presidency, rather than 2nd, his electroshock therapy would not have been an issue.)

[RosettaStoned]

You actually met Tom Dewey?! Thats so awesome! I totally would have asked for his autograph!

[LastMcGovernite]

nono, good sir.  As I mentioned in passing, this was a dream I had, in which Tom Dewey made a cameo apperance.  I have very boring dreams.

[Psychic Octopus]

nono, good sir.  As I mentioned in passing, this was a dream I had, in which Tom Dewey made a cameo apperance.  I have very boring dreams.

I once had a dream in which FDR and Reagan were arguing on top of clouds.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I will do Wilkie or atleast try.

Secretary of State: Arthur Vandenburg
Secretary of the Tresury: Alf Landon
Secretary of War: Doug MacArthur
Secretary of Navy: Ernest J. King 
Attorney General: Thomas E. Dewey
Secretary of the Interior: Harold Stassen
Secretary of Commerce: James M. Cox
Secretary of Labor: Fiorella La Guardia
Postmaster General: James M. Farley 

[RosettaStoned]

The Kerry Administration

Sec. of State: Richard Holbrooke
Sec. of Agriculture: Tom Vilsack
Sec. of Energy: Jennifer Granholm
Sec. of the Treasury: Mary Ellen Withrow
Sec. of Homeland Security: Susan Collins
Attorney General: Janet Napolitano
Sec. of the Interior: Tom Udall
Sec. of Labor: Benjamin Cayetano
Sec. of Commerce: Alexis Herman
Sec. of Veterans' Affairs: Charlie Gonzales
Sec. of HUD: Thomas Menino
Sec. of HHS: Jeanne Shaheen
Sec. of Education: James Baxter Hunt Jr.
Sec. of Transportation: Juanita Millender-McDonald
Sec. of Defense: Sandy Berger

[Psychic Octopus]

The McCain Administration; 2009-2013

Sec. of State: Joe Lieberman
Sec. of Defense: Robert Gates (Replaced by Sam Nunn Later)
Sec. of the Treasury: John Chambers
Sec. of Homeland Security: Lindsey Graham
Sec. of Education: Lisa Keegan
Attorney General: Deborah Wong-Yang
Sec. of HHS: Mike Huckabee
Sec. of Commerce: J.C. Watts
Sec. of Veteran's Affairs: Colin Powell
National Security Advisor: Gary Hart
Sec. of Labor: Meg Whitman
Sec. of the Interior: T. Boone Pickens
Sec. of HUD: John Kasich

Some would disagree, but McCain's cabinet would Maverick it up.