The Kitchen Cabinet was a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group, the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton affair ...
President Andrew Jackson and the “Kitchen Cabinet” (1829–1831) When President Andrew Jackson took office in 1829, his official Cabinet was fractured by factional disputes, largely resulting from the fierce rivalry between Vice President John C. Calhoun and Secretary of State Martin Van Buren.
kitchen cabinet. n. A group of unofficial advisers to the head of a government. [From the story that President Andrew Jackson met with his unofficial cabinet in the White House kitchen.]
Washington held his first full cabinet meeting on February 25, 1793, with Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph. One prominent individual who did not attend cabinet meetings was Vice President John Adams.
The President has the power to appoint federal judges, ambassadors, and other "principal officers” of the United States, subject to Senate confirmation of such appointments. “Principal officers” here includes ambassadors and Members of the Cabinet.
The President of the United States delegates much work to the Cabinet. Each Cabinet member is the head of an executive department of the government. ... They meet in the Cabinet Room next to the President's Oval Office in the White House West Wing.
Cabinet members are appointed by the president and confirmed by the members of the Senate to become the secretaries of the executive departments: State, Labor, Defense, Interior, Education, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Homeland ...
Below are the Cabinet positions and their responsibilities, listed in order of succession to the Presidency:Vice President of the United States. ... Secretary of State. ... Secretary of the Treasury. ... Secretary of Defense. ... United States Attorney General. ... Secretary of the Interior. ... Secretary of Agriculture. ... Secretary of Commerce.More items...
The Cabinet includes the Vice President and the heads of 15 executive departments — the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Labor, State, Transportation, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs, as well as the ...