Obama presents new cabinet

Published: Monday 01 December 2008 18:45 UTC

Last updated: Monday 01 December 2008 18:45 UTC

US president elect Barack Obama has announced who will be nominated for the key positions in the new government. Most of the nominations had been leaked beforehand. Mr Obama's former rival for the Democratic nomination Hillary Clinton will become secretary of state, the Republican Robert Gates will stay on as defense secretary. Former Marine Corps general James Jones has been nominated as national security advisor.

Eric Holder is the intended new Attorney General and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has been nominated head of the Department of Homeland Security, which was created in the wake of 9/11. New York Central Bank President Timothy Geithner has been chosen to become secretary of the treasury.

Noteworthy is that Mr Obama has appointed many ministers and advisors who also played a role in former president Bill Clinton's cabinet. Former secretary of the treasury Lawrence Summers will lead the National Economic Council, Susan Rice, former deputy secretary of state, will become the new US ambassador to the United Nations.

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Hillary Clinton Named Secretary of State

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It's official: President-elect Barack Obama has rolled out his national security team: Senator Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State, Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain, Eric Holder for Attorney General, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Susan Rice for Ambassador to the UN and General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret) for National Security Adviser.

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Repubs in the Cabinet may be hard to find.......

By JONATHAN MARTIN 11/23/08 7:12 AM EST
Appearing on CBS’ “60 Minutes” last Sunday, Barack Obama reiterated a campaign-trail promise.“Yes,” the president-elect told Steve Kroft, he would include Republicans in his Cabinet.
Pressed if there would be more than one, Obama declined to elaborate. As the top tier of his Cabinet begins to come into focus, however, it looks increasingly unlikely that Obama will break new ground when it comes to fashioning a bipartisan government.

Instead, he appears to be taking a check-the-box approach that would differ little from the pattern set by predecessors Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. They both made a nod to the opposition party in their Cabinet selections but in the main did not depart from Washington’s to-the-victor-goes-the-spoils tradition in their personnel choices or the policies that flowed from them.

The most likely Republican for a top Obama post, based on published speculation and reporting within his transition team this weekend, is Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who might keep his job in at least the opening phase of the new administration. Obama has said foreign policy is the area most in need of more bipartisanship, and the likely appointment of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) leaves few other openings.

A Gates reappointment would send a message of caution and continuity within national security circles — not exactly the message that Obama’s most ardent anti-Iraq war supporters are yearning for.

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