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Cabinet Count
Today’s random statistic: If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is forced out of office his replacement would become the 29th person to serve under President Bush in the 14 cabinet posts that also existed when Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office.
Coincidentally (or not, if you are the kind of person who tends to see conspiracies), Clinton, in his eight years in office, also appointed 29 people to those 14 posts.
FYI, White House spokesman Tony Snow said today that Monday’s resignation of Paul McNulty, the number two man at the Justice Department, “certainly does not change the way we view the attorney general.”
Ronald Reagan, the other recent two-term president, went through 33 people for the 13 cabinet posts that existed when he was in office. (Secretary of Veterans Affairs was added while Clinton was in office.)
Other cabinet trivia: Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is the only Bush cabinet member who has served since he took office in January 2001.
Clinton had four cabinet members who did the full eight-year gig: Attorney General Janet Reno, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Education Secretary Richard Riley.
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