Half of her cabinet also shared the photo, stressing the importance of freedom of expression and the need to preserve historical memory.
An accountant with a mountain of tax returns to do, this is her busiest time of year, but half her filing cabinets were standing open as she tried to dry her papers out.
Former Gov. Madeleine M. Kunin of Vermont suggested in an interview that Mr. Obama promise to appoint women to half his cabinet positions.
Mr Kibaki lost half his cabinet, including his vice-president, as well as a large number of seemingly unassailable members of parliament.
President Bush's vacation plans changed abruptly when he decided recently to summon more than half his cabinet to a convenient location for an economic conference.
And to use his decision as an excuse to make him a scapegoat would be intolerable - though I fear it would be tolerated by half his cabinet colleagues.
Another senior Tory said Cameron would have to allow his ministers to campaign as they wished "or else he will lose half his cabinet as a result".
When the Tory candidate in what was then his seat of West Lothian lost his deposit a panicky Harold Macmillan fired half his cabinet (the wrong half, as the wags said).
Half his cabinet, including his deputy prime minister, were women, and his government passed a number of laws affecting private life the most important of which were the legalization of same-sex marriage and the criminalization of domestic violence.
On September 18th and 19th Mr García will head a deputation, including half his cabinet and more than 200 business leaders, to see Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in São Paulo.With luck, it will be a fruitful visit.
