QUESTIONS:
1. In the shake-up of the Bush Cabinet, only two deputy secretaries have been appointed to cabinet-level secretaries. Can you name them?
2. Since President Bush took office '01, he has taken five sitting governors out of office and put them in major administration positions. Can you name them?
3. Although the White House insists that John Snow will stay on as secretary of the Treasury, New York Gov. George Pataki has hinted he is interested in the job. Who was the last New York governor to resign before his term ended?
4. Former Republican National Chairman Jim Nicholson has been appointed secretary of Veterans Affairs. Who was the last former RNC head to serve in the President's Cabinet?
5. Bernard Kerik has just withdrawn as the President's nominee for secretary of Homeland Security after it was revealed that he hired an illegal alien as a former nanny. Three previous Cabinet nominees since 1991 have been forced to pull their nominations following similar revelations. Can you name them?
ANSWERS:
1. Samuel Bodman, deputy secretary of the Treasury, who was just appointed secretary of Energy, and Alphonzo Jackson, who moved up from deputy secretary of Housing and Urban Development to secretary of HUD earlier this year.
2. Republican Governors Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin (who became secretary of Health and Human Services in '01), Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey (who became Environmental Protection Agency head in '01 and resigned in '03), Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania (named head of Homeland Security in '02), Mike Leavitt of Utah (named head of EPA in '03 and just appointed to succeed Thompson as secretary of HHS), and Mike Johanns of Nebraska (just named secretary of Agriculture).
3. Republican Nelson Rockefeller of New York, who resigned mid-way through his fourth term in 1973 and was named Vice President the following year.
4. Bill Brock, RNC chairman from 1976-80, who served as secretary of Labor from 1983-87.
5. Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, President Clinton's nominees to be attorney general in 1993, and Linda Chavez, President Bush's choice for secretary of Labor, in '01.
