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One example is the habit Senate Republicans have made of holding up staff appointments to the administration, often for tactical reasons unrelated to the merits of the candidates.
Mr. McGreevey, who has been having some trouble recently with other appointments to his administration, at first chose his old political pal Charles Kushner for the job.
They provide no insight into her role in appointments to key administration posts or in courting donors for her political campaigns or her husband's, nor in how she coped with revelations in 1998 of her husband's sexual betrayal with a young White House intern.
Amid concerns that he's inept, a huge fraud settlement and questionable appointments to his administration, he's spending his valuable time having Tweet wars when he should be reassuring the American people.
If I'm right, and Obama has indeed taken Goodwin's book to heart, it will make for an interesting round of senior appointments to Obama's administration.
By Thursday evening, the mayor-elect had not announced any appointments to his new administration, not even a chief of staff who might advise him in hiring.
People close to the Bush campaign said officials in Austin, Tex., had anticipated a Gore withdrawal, and were preparing announcements of appointments to a Bush administration as early as Saturday.
Officially, Mr. Bush has put out the word that he is working with his transition team and considering appointments to a "potential administration," as he put it Friday during a White House-style photo opportunity.
