But he's already brought on board one "indispensable" senior official, naming Tom Kalil to the new position of deputy director for policy.
He was, in the words of a US official, "indispensable" to Ben Ali and, ever the loyalist, he recently revealed that he is still in touch with the deposed dictator.
Today in countries such as Great Britain, the Netherlands, or Denmark, the monarch is the ceremonial head of state, an indispensable figure in all great official occasions and a symbol of national unity and of the authority of the state, but is almost entirely lacking in power.
Clearly, she responded evasively to his proposal, because fact of not allowing non-governmental media to exist seems to be an indispensable condition to sustain the official press, which is so bad from the journalistic point of view that only its status as a monopoly can ensure that it has an audience.
Roughly $13bn was paid out in the European Recovery Program (the Marshall plan's official name) and this proved indispensable in laying the foundations for the "miracle" of sustained economic growth in the decade that followed.
The moment, capping a long and resolute career in state government, had officials saluting her as the indispensable Ruth Ann -- short and sweet, as the bumper stickers said it during her campaign.
"Considering the current political climate, in which an increasing number of citizens question the foundations of the EU, decisive action is indispensable," an assessment of the programme by officials in the European parliament reports.
But in Illinois, state and local officials saw Medicaid as an indispensable form of assistance that could help tens of thousands of welfare recipients take low-wage jobs offering no health insurance benefits.
The past decade has seen the hectic emergence of some 600 regional TV stations, increasingly professional and broad enough to become an indispensable source of information, including alternatives to the official line, for a country spread across 11 time zones.
But he also became indispensable to Mr. Hu over the past five years, party officials said.
