Donald Henry Rumsfeld was an American politician,government official and businessman who served as secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford,and again from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally,Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–1969),director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–1970),counselor to the president (1969–1973),the U.S. Representative to NATO (1973–1974),and the White House Chief of Staff (1974–1975). Between his terms as secretary of defense,he served as the CEO and chairman of several companies.
The Cabinet of the United States is the principal official advisory body to the president of the United States. The Cabinet generally meets with the president in a room adjacent to the Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House. The president chairs the meetings but is not formally a member of the Cabinet. The heads of departments,appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate,are members of the Cabinet,and acting department heads also participate in Cabinet meetings whether or not they have been officially nominated for Senate confirmation. The president may designate heads of other agencies and non-Senate-confirmed members of the Executive Office of the President as members of the Cabinet.
James Addison Baker III is an American attorney,diplomat and statesman. A member of the Republican Party,he served as the 10th White House chief of staff and 67th United States secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan and the 61st U.S. secretary of state before returning as the 16th White House chief of staff under President George H. W. Bush.
John William Snow is an American economist,attorney,and businessman who is the former CEO of CSX Corporation and served as the 73rd United States secretary of the treasury under U.S. President George W. Bush. He replaced Secretary Paul H. O'Neill on February 3,2003 and was succeeded by Henry Paulson on July 3,2006. Snow submitted a letter of resignation on May 30,2006,effective "after an orderly transition period for my successor." Snow announced on June 29,2006 that he had completed his last day on the job;Robert M. Kimmitt served as acting secretary until Paulson was sworn in. Snow has since worked as chairman of Cerberus Capital Management.
Paul Henry O'Neill was an American businessman and government official who served as the 72nd United States secretary of the treasury for part of President George W. Bush's first term,from January 2001 to December 2002. Secretary Paul H. O'Neill resigned from the Treasury Department on December 6,2002. Prior to his term as secretary of the treasury,O'Neill was chairman and CEO of industrial giant Alcoa and chairman of the RAND Corporation.
Edward Spencer Abraham is an American attorney,author,and politician who served as the 10th United States Secretary of Energy from 2001 to 2005,under President George W. Bush. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a United States Senator from Michigan from 1995 to 2001. Abraham is one of the founders of the Federalist Society,and a co-founder of the Harvard Journal of Law &Public Policy. As of 2024,he is the last Republican to have served as a U.S. senator from Michigan.
Michael Okerlund Leavitt is an American Republican Party politician who served as the 14th governor of Utah from 1993 to 2003,and in the George W. Bush administration as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 2003 to 2005 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2005 to 2009.
Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III is an American businessman. He was the finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of EmPath. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. He served as the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 2005 to 2009.
Within a week after the 2004 United States presidential election,many members of President George W. Bush's cabinet announced their resignation in what major media outlets and Bush himself called the White House shakeup. Several top advisers were also involved,although they are not technically cabinet members.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
David Harold McCormick is an American businessman and politician. McCormick served as the CEO of Bridgewater Associates,one of the world's largest hedge funds,from 2020 to 2022. He is the husband of former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy Dina Powell.
Henrietta Holsman Fore is an American public health and international development executive who was the executive director of UNICEF till January 2022. Fore is chairman and CEO of Holsman International,a management,investment,and advisory services company. She served in three presidential appointments under President George W. Bush:Fore was the first woman Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance,the 11th Under Secretary of Management in the Department of State,and the 37th Director of the United States Mint in the U.S. Department of Treasury. She was the presidential appointee for President George H. W. Bush at the United States Agency for International Development.
Membership in the Council on Foreign Relations comes in two types:Individual and Corporate. Individual memberships are further subdivided into two types:Life Membership and Term Membership,the latter of which is for a single period of five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible. A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others.
Barack Obama assumed office as President of the United States on January 20,2009,and his term ended on January 20,2017. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Robert Alan McDonald served as the eighth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He is the retired chairman,president,and CEO of Procter &Gamble. In 2014 he became Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
Walter Vincent Shipley II was the chairman and chief executive officer of Chase Manhattan Bank and,previous to that,the company with which it merged Chemical Bank. Shipley was named chief executive of Chemical in 1981 and held the position through 1999 and remained at the bank as chairman through January 2000,just prior to the bank's merger with J.P. Morgan &Co. During his 18-year tenure,Shipley oversaw Chemical's mergers with Texas Commerce Bank in 1987,Manufacturers Hanover in 1991 and Chase Manhattan Bank in 1996.
Ray Willets Washburne is an American businessman,political fundraiser,and government official. He co-founded the M Crowd Restaurant Group,which owns Mi Cocina and other restaurants. He served as President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from 2017 to 2019 and as a member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board from 2019 to 2020.
Donald Trump assumed office as president of the United States on January 20,2017,and his term ended on January 20,2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
