He also irritated some White House officials when he went to Congress without their knowledge three months ago and proposed unsuccessfully to have his position elevated to the status of cabinet level, outranking such officials as the director of central intelligence, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and all the civilian heads of the various branches of the armed services.
The problem is to minimize the costs by determining positions of cabinets, deciding which customers to connect to them, and how to reconnect cabinets among each other and to the backbone.
One month later he elevated the position of counsel to cabinet status and assigned his old friend the job of negotiating the legalities of the pardon of Richard Nixon.
I think at this point I should repeat - rather unnecessarily, since I made myself very clear during my first speech, but it seems, from what I have heard, that not everyone understood me - what the position of the Dutch cabinet is on the issue of admission to EMU.
Normally, a candidate who performed as well as he did among the party's base would be in line for at least some kind of cabinet position if his side won.
"What kind of cabinet position might you like if it were possible?" asked Walters, after Cain said that he thought no candidate would choose him as vice president because of the sexual harassment and affair allegations -- which he continued to deny -- against him that caused him to suspend his campaign.
Mr. Hawass, whose previous title was chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, under the umbrella of the Ministry of Culture, was promoted on Monday to a position in the cabinet of President Hosni Mubarak as minister of antiquities.
Just 26% of the government is made up of female politicians, with 32% of cabinet positions and 24% of junior government posts held by women.
After several weeks of talks, settlement on the allocation of cabinet positions between PNU and ODM members was reached, and on April 13 , 2008 Kibaki named the coalition government.
Beginning in 1986, he represented the town of Red Deer in the Alberta legislature, and he held a number of cabinet positions in the Progressive Conservative provincial government.
Why you should read it: Vlahos uses paranoid masterpiece Seven Days in May – which depicts an attempted military coup in America – to frame a nuanced consideration of Trump's appointments of recently retired generals to a range of cabinet positions.
