Barack Obama's original cabinet was chockablock with historic firsts.
His original "cabinet" consisted of just three men -- Thomas Jefferson at State, Henry Knox at War and Hamilton at Treasury.
Later on Saturday the laughs give way to expressionistic chills with a showing of the original "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (8 15 p.m., $9).
Mr. LaHood's decision makes him the latest in a series of members of the president's original cabinet to announce their departures in the last several weeks.
As Mr Wahid did in his original cabinet, she will dole out portfolios in proportion to each party's standing in parliament.
But it is fair to point out that few of the other original cabinet "wets" showed any more fight; the only difference was that they were sacked and he was not.
Meanwhile, at Corsham Court in Somerset, artist Angela Cockayne recently restored an original cabinet of curiosities she found hidden in the building's Elizabethan cellars: a dusty trove of bird skulls, shells and butterfly wings.
It was Thatcher's inflexibility in regard to the burgeoning European Union that ultimately led Sir Geoffrey Howe, her longtime supporter and the last remaining member from her original cabinet, to resign from his post as Deputy Prime Minister in November of 1990.
