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obama has a pretty good record of appointing women even to the top jobs. rutgers keeps score on all this stuff. 43%. the only president who has done better in terms of these top jobs is president clinton in his second term where he had 41% of these cabinet level appointments. that said, the bar is higher at this point. it s years later. women have really emerged as a bigger who elected barack obama? men a majority of men voted for the republican nominee, mitt romney. it was women what were the target of the obama campaign, and i think women have some expectations to be represented. it s been a long time. it s been at least six years since there s been no woman in those top four jobs, those big four cabinet jobs that are first in line for succession to the presidency, and that are seen as the most powerful policymakers in the president s administration. going forward, what about the chuck hagel nomination? you cover the pentagon, elizabeth. ruth, we have all been watching
chris, what about hilda solis departing? we understand she has some political prospects herself back in her native california. you are losing a cabinet secretary who is not only, you know, female, but hispanic. yeah. when it happened yesterday afternoon, andrea, i haut to myself, gee, this is the department of bad timing for president obama because ruth hits it exactly right, which is, yes, janet napolitano is at hhs excuse me at department homeland security. yes, cathleen is at health and human services. susan rice, lisa jackson, though she s leaving, you know, but it s these big it s the big four cabinet jobs that we always think of. the very most prominent ones that have the most sort of sway, the biggest portfolio. all cabinet jobs are not created equal. they just aren t. i think that s why they re taking the criticism. would i say, though, look, i
president flanked by his defense secretary, leon panetta, and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, that is a reminder of how strange it is that cabinet jobs are sort of expected to all turn over when a president earns a secretary term. big picture. if you are a great secretary of transportation you are doing a fine job running the agriculture department for the nation, why should you leave that job when the president who picked you for that job just got reelected to stay in his job for another four years? it s weird, right, the turnover for the second term. occasionally, people do stay on for a second term or part of a second term. mostly, because either they are tired or because it is tradition. cabinet secretaries move on and frankly, personnel changes at these top echelons at the u.s. government even when these people are good at their jobs, change in the key policy roles does give a chance to put fresh eyes on old problems. that s not just true for the cabinet but true througho
state. the reason is because everybody has done such a remarkable job. my main purpose is to say thank you to them and also to remind them, we ve got a lot of work to do. mr. president, susan rice thank you so much. susan rice is extraordinary. couldn t be prouder of the job she has done at the u.n. [ applause ] that was the end of the press coverage of the president s first cabinet meeting extended right there. first cabinet meeting since the election. that shot that you see of the president flanked by his defense secretary, leon panetta, and his secretary of state, hillary clinton, that is a reminder of how strange it is that cabinet jobs are sort of expected to all turn over when a president earns a secretary term. big picture. if you are a great secretary of