1. The Cabinets I “Overt” Cabinet Basis George Washington 1789
“elastic clause”
Expansion
Membership
Selection

2. Meetings
Advisory and informal
Style = weak or strong

3. II Cabinet Positions State 1789 Treasury 1789 Defense 1789
Attorney General 1789
( Justice Department 1870)

4. Interior 1849
Agriculture 1889
Commerce 1903*
Labor 1913*
Health and Human Services 1953*

5. Housing and Urban Development 1965
Transportation 1967
Energy 1977
Education 1979*
Veterans Affairs 1989
Homeland Security

6. “Covert” Cabinet “Executive Office of the Pres.” September 10, 1939
Key = executive order
Senate Confirmation?
Power?

7. E.O.P Levels

8. 1. White House Staff (inner circle)
Secretaries
Press
Correspondence
Appointments
-legal counsel

9. O.M.B. National Security Council Office of Trade Rep. Etc.
2. Special Councils
O.M.B.
National Security
Council
Office of Trade Rep.
Etc.

10. “kitchen cabinet” “brain trust” “president’s men”
3. External Advisors
“kitchen cabinet”
“brain trust”
“president’s men”

11. Secrecy Protection of President Executive orders discipline
Evolution of Power
Secrecy
Protection of President
Executive orders
discipline

12. Evolution of Power 1. Secrecy 2. Protection of the President
3. Executive Orders
4. Discipline