WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama naming, or at least leaking to the press, his cabinet picks faster than nearly all of his predecessors, CNN reported Tuesday.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is
flanked by Council of Economic Advisors Director-designate Christina
Romer(L), National Economic Council Director-designate Lawrence Summers
(R) as he announces the members of his economic policy team during a news
conference in Chicago, November 24, 2008.(Xinhua/Reuters
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"If we do not act swiftly and boldly, most experts believe that we could lose millions of jobs next year," Obama said Monday, when he nominated Timothy Geithner as next treasury secretary.
With an economic crisis spiraling out of control and a lame duck president in the oval office, presidential scholars say the next commander in chief simply had no choice.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama speaks
in front of Peter Orszag (L), the current director of the Congressional
Budget Office, as he announces Orszag as his choice for director of the
Office of Management and Budget during a news conference in Chicago Nov.
25, 2008. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)
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"This is really unprecedented. But it's an unprecedented situation," said Larry Sabato, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia.
In recent times, only former President George H.W. Bush, father of current President George W. Bush moved more quickly, but that was to name confidant James Baker to secretary of state just days after the election.
Both Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton waited until December for their first picks.
ABC News: Gates set to stay on as defense chief
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is set to stay on in the top Pentagon job, for at least the first year of the Obama administration, ABC News reported Tuesday.
"It is a done deal," a source close to the process was quoted as saying.
Obama unveils economic team to tackle
economic crisis
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- With the economy in crisis, U.S. President-elect Barack Obama Monday unveiled his economic team pick to shore up financial markets and tackle the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in 1930s.
Obama puts Romer, Barnes to senior
White House posts
CHICAGO, Nov.
24 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday put University of
California professor Christina Romer and his campaign aide Melody Barnes on
senior White House posts.
Romer was named Director of the Council of Economic Advisors by Obama at a press conference in Chicago.
Profile: Ex-treasury chief to be
Obama's top economic advisor
CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Lawrence H. Summers, a former Secretary of
Treasury, was named Director of the National Economic Council by president
Barack Obama on Monday.
Summers, 53, currently a professor at Harvard University, will be Obama's top economic advisor at the White House.
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