After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

In the federal government, the executive branch, led by the president, controls the federal executive departments, which are led by secretaries who are members of the United States Cabinet.

Category: African-American members of the Cabinet of the United States

In May 2011, members of the country's Legislative Assembly including its president Sigfrido Reyes presented a proposal to the Cabinet to issue a statement formally recognising the State of Palestine.

* 1844 – A gun on explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.

In the railroad car the President rode with his secretary, John G. Nicolay, his assistant secretary, John Hay, the three members of his Cabinet who accompanied him, William Seward, John Usher and Montgomery Blair, several foreign officials and others.

The Premier then directs the Governor to appoint other members of parliament to the Executive Council of New South Wales known as the Cabinet, and it is in practice only from this group of ministers of the Crown that the Queen and governor will take direction on the use of executive power, an arrangement called the Queen-in-Council or, more specifically, the Governor-in-Council.

Cabinet members are appointed and dismissed at the sole discretion of the Prime Minister.

For example, members of the Irish Cabinet are dismissed by the President on the advice of the Taoiseach ; in other instances, the head of state may be able to dismiss an office holder unilaterally ; other heads of state, or their representatives, have the theoretical power to dismiss any office-holder, while it is exceptionally rarely used.

The Cabinet members are nominated by the Prime Minister, and must also be civilian.

There is no convention of Cabinet collective responsibility among members of the Council of Ministers.

* 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.

It is considered to be one of Michigan's " Cabinet counties ", named for members of Jackson's Cabinet.

Kemp was a bit of a surprise to stay in the Bush Cabinet for the duration of his presidency, and he was described as one of the few Bush Administration members who would take tough stands.

After Vansittart's memo, members of the Anglo-German Fellowship ceased to see Cabinet ministers after going on Ribbentrop-arranged trips to Germany.

The Beretitenti appoints a Kauoman-ni-Beretitenti ( Vice-President ) and up to ten other Cabinet Ministers from among the members of the Maneaba.

Fellow Cabinet members describe Konoe as remarkably passive during their discussions of how to respond to the Chinese.

On April 12, 1980, Doe led a bloody coup d ' état against president Tolbert, in which Tolbert and twenty-six of his supporters were murdered ; ten days later thirteen of Tolbert ’ s Cabinet members were publicly executed.

The President of Malawi and the current executive branch is supported by appointed members of a Cabinet of Malawi and government agencies in Malawi.

Most of the work is executed by the Executive Branch which consists of the Cabinet of Ministers, Leader of the Opposition and also other members of the parliament.

Category: Female members of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom

The Premier selects three other members to form the Cabinet of Ministers, the executive arm of government.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

After the failure of Lord North's ministry ( 1770 – 1782 ) in March 1782 due to Britain's defeat in the American Revolutionary War and the ensuing vote of no confidence by Parliament, the Marquess of Rockingham reasserted the Prime Minister's control over the Cabinet.

* January 13 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member, by being appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

On 2 June, Powell spoke against the stationing of American Cruise missiles in Britain and claimed the United States had an obsessive sense of mission and a hallucinatory view of international relations: " The American nation, as we have watched their proceedings during these last 25 years, will not, when another Atlantic crisis, another Middle East crisis or another European crisis comes, wait upon the deliberations of the British Cabinet, whose point of view and appreciation of the situation will be so different from their own ".

Robert C. Weaver became the first African American Cabinet member by being appointed to the position.

The department was also the first Cabinet department to be headed by an African American woman, Patricia Roberts Harris, in 1977.

Charles Joseph Bonaparte ( June 9, 1851 – June 28, 1921 ) was an American lawyer and political activist from Maryland who served in the Cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Even the Postmaster General, David Key, who was the second Confederate veteran to serve in a Federal Cabinet since the American Civil War was more notable.

The American newsmagazine, Time, reported that Banza " was dragged before a Cabinet meeting where Bokassa slashed him with a razor.

None of the battles of the American Civil War were fought in or near Wilkes County, but it was here, on the site of the present Wilkes County Courthouse in downtown Washington, where President Jefferson Davis met for the final time with the Confederate Cabinet They officially dissolved the government of the Confederate States of America.

Benn publicly circulated the Cabinet minutes from the 1931 National Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald, which cut unemployment benefits in order to secure a loan from American bankers and resulted in the splitting of the Labour Party.

* William Pierce Rogers ( June 23, 1913 – January 2, 2001 ) was an American politician, who served as a Cabinet officer in the administrations of two U. S. Presidents in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He became the first Asian American to hold the position, and only the fourth person to be a member of Cabinet under two Presidents from different political parties ( after Edwin M. Stanton, Henry L. Stimson, and James R. Schlesinger ).

Florey, with the help of cinematographer Karl Freund and elaborate sets representing 19th century Paris, made Murders into an American version of German expressionist films such as Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ).

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a production by Robert McGrath.

Benjamin was the first Jewish appointee to a Cabinet position in a North American government, and the first Jewish American to be seriously considered for nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court ( he twice declined offers of nomination ).

Sidmouth left office in 1822, succeeded as Home Secretary by Sir Robert Peel, but remained in the Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio for the next two years, fruitlessly opposing British recognition of the South American republics.

World Leaders, also known as Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, is a weekly directory published by the CIA that lists four types of state officials: the head of state and / or head of government, the chief of the local central bank, the UN and American ambassadors from the country listed, and the foreign minister.

Despite belonging to a prominent slaveholding family, Blair was an abolitionist and a loyal member of the Cabinet of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.

John Canfield Spencer ( January 8, 1788May 17, 1855 ) was an American lawyer, politician, judge and United States Cabinet secretary in the administration of President John Tyler.