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Standing in Obama’s Cabinet is a collection of Ivy Leaguers. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner—a Dartmouth grad—heads an economic-policy team that boasts four Harvard professors, whose students praise Obama’s picks. But the president should be leery of advisers who come from the same universities and work for the same administrations. Such similarity causes groupthink, and Obama may have assembled a set of bobbleheads...
...Obama isn’t the first to decorate his Cabinet with narrow-minded academics. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed several professors to his administration, including the University of Chicago’s Paul Douglas and Columbia’s Rexford Tugwell. Like Obama’s aides, these scholars shared a common nightmare: a depression like the one that devastated Midwestern farmers in the 1920s...
...Gregg's last-minute decision were another matter. A former New Hampshire governor turned legislator, Gregg has long been his own boss. As a relative moderate, he could have held considerable sway in the tightly divided Senate. The job of Commerce Secretary, traditionally the most ceremonial and least influential Cabinet job, offered very limited potential to shape policy. And since his appointment was announced, Gregg had been criticized by some Republicans both in Washington and at home in New Hampshire for being a traitor to the party. (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...Gregg news continues a string of disappointments to have hit the Obama team, including the withdrawal of two other Cabinet nominees, Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Tom Daschle and the first Commerce Secretary choice, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. But those prior separations were different in kind. Both Daschle and Richardson volunteered to leave the nomination process once their appointments became political liabilities. Gregg was a political asset to the President, one Obama boasted of in his Monday press conference, until the withdrawal. As any teenager will tell you, it's far better when a breakup is mutual than...
...been mired in a corruption scandal for the past several years. Police allege he may have taken bribes while serving as a cabinet minister and suspect irregularities in his campaign finances preceding his run for a Knesset seat. Lieberman has repeatedly denied any improper dealings...