the members of american cabinet are appointed after the approval of and appointment by united states senate.
the members of american cabinet are appointed after the approval of and appointment by united states senate.
the members of american cabinet are appointed after the approval of and appointment by?
united states senate
when johnson assumed office following president kennedy's death, he asked the existing cabinet to remain in office. despite his notoriously poor relationship with the new president, attorney general robert f. kennedy stayed on as attorney general until september 1964, when he resigned to run for the u.s. senate. four of the kennedy cabinet members johnson inherited—secretary of state dean rusk, secretary of the interior stewart udall, secretary of agriculture orville l. freeman, and secretary of labor w. willard wirtz—served until the end of johnson's presidency. other kennedy holdovers, including secretary of defense robert mcnamara, left office during johnson's tenure. after the creation of the department of housing and urban development in 1965, johnson appointed robert c. weaver as the head of that department, making weaver the first african-american cabinet secretary in u.s. history.
presidency of lyndon b. johnson
despite his centralization of power in the white house, nixon allowed his cabinet officials great leeway in setting domestic policy in subjects he was not strongly interested in, such as environmental policy. in a 1970 memo to top aides, he stated that in domestic areas other than crime, school integration, and economic issues, "i am only interested when we make a major breakthrough or have a major failure. otherwise don't bother me." nixon recruited former campaign rival george romney to serve as the secretary of housing and urban development, but romney and secretary of transportation john volpe quickly fell out of favor as nixon attempted to cut the budgets of their respective departments. nixon did not appoint any female or african american cabinet officials, although nixon did offer a cabinet position to civil rights leader whitney young. nixon's initial cabinet also contained an unusually small number of ivy league graduates, with the exception of george p. shultz, who held three different cabinet positions during nixon's presidency. nixon attempted to recruit a prominent democrat like humphrey or sargent shriver into his administration, but was unsuccessful until early 1971, when former governor john connally of texas became secretary of the treasury. connally would become one of the most powerful members of the cabinet and coordinated the administration's economic policies.
presidency of richard nixon