June 2019
Picking the President?s Team
A most important task of an incoming president is nominating the men and women who will serve as the cabinet. Each nominee, as well as nominees for federal judges and more rarely, Supreme Court, must go through Senate confirmation. For the most part, our norms have been that with only a few exceptions, these nominees secure bipartisan approval.
Each president has his own process for selecting this team. Abraham Lincoln provided a sterling example: he selected his most voc more...