He also closed the administration's field offices around the state, eliminated the first lady's office and forced appointees to take a 5% pay cut in keeping with campaign promises to limit government spending.
Of course, for appropriate positions, the president gets to name political appointees and to take into account, when naming those political appointees, their personal politics.
But most culpable were the high-level appointees, unwilling to take ownership of what they'd decided to do; lying to their staffs in the expectation that nobody really cared what happened to poor Central American kids; cynical about the notion that most of us who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution actually mean it.
Some 3,000-4,000 new senior presidential appointees are due to take office in early 2017.
The suit is not expected to overturn the final result: even Mr Tsvangirai has acknowledged that the nine-member Constitutional Court, packed with Mugabe appointees, is unlikely to take a position against the President.
But there are no new Trump appointees lined up to take over Holliday's desk just yet.
What is your take on the Microsoft ruling? A. The solicitor general, a Bush appointee, is not likely to take this to the Supreme Court.
The Governor was joined by the Bank's director for financial markets, Paul Fisher, and external appointee David Miles, in voting to take the Bank's total stimulus spending up to £400bn.
He simply decided that Woodcock had not overstepped her authority and that he, a political appointee, was not going to take another gigantic step by overruling the FDA staff.
As a result of his military background and experience, Ismay became "more closely involved in defence matters than is usual for a Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations," and often served as de facto Minister of Defence and serving as temporary Minister of Defence until the permanent appointee, Harold Alexander, was able to take office.
