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eschatonblog.com - 12/1/2008
Cabinet Meetings
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Yglesias writes: Since no modern president actually governs via cabinet meetings... Obviously George Bush didn't govern via Cabinet meetings; they were just photo ops when he had them. But what about Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford? I actually have no idea. More generally, it seems ...
huffingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
Obama Defends Cabinet: The Change Will Come From Me
— huffingtonpost.com — Speaking to reporters for the third time in three days, Barack Obama was asked directly whether the... staff choices he had made for his cabinet and advisory positions conflicted with his campaign message that the next president simply couldn't tap the ... (more) Obama Defends Cabinet: The Change Will Come From Me

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Last Call for a Bipartisan Cabinet
blogs.cqpolitics.com - 12/3/2008
Last Call for a Bipartisan Cabinet
— blogs.cqpolitics.com — Now that President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet is, by his count, half picked, the odds are fading that... he’ll have more than one Republican on his team — suggesting that his campaign promise to include Republicans may have meant ... (more) Last Call for a Bipartisan Cabinet

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politicalwire.com - 12/7/2008
Reid Will Keep Biden Out of Senate Meetings
— politicalwire.com — An advance look at tomorrow's Las Vegas Sun : "The new Congress will reassert its constitutional independence... from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said ... (more) Reid Will Keep Biden Out of Senate Meetings

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Cabinet Government
Matthew Yglesias — Atrios asks in response to my assertion that “no no modern president actually governs via cabinet meetings”: Obviously George Bush didn’t govern via Cabinet meetings; they were just photo ops when he had them. But what about Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, Ford? I actually have no idea. In brief, Eisenhower presided over a modest revival in the idea of “cabinet government” that was aided by the fact that he didn’t have an especially ambitious governing agenda. But then under Kennedy, LBJ, and Nixon the cabinet’s influence waned. Gerald Ford came into office ...

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