Running for Cabinet positions?

[NoPasaran]

The view is often expressed on DU that one candidate or another would make an excellent choice for a position in someone else's cabinet, or that some presidential candidates who seemingly don't a chance of being nominated are really running for cabinet positions. However... how often do presidents bring their former rivals into their administrations? Lincoln, of course, is famous for doing so. Wilson named the oft-defeated William Jennings Bryan his Secretary of State. But I'm at a loss for other, more recent examples. Thoughts, anyone?

On edit: Vice president is another matter. Rivals are often chosen for the Number Two slot for one reason or another, and then frequently ignored for the next four to eight years.

[BOSSHOG]

1. bush hired mccain as a water boy

Kerry took his rival Edwards as a running mate. Ray-gun tapped bush for VP.

[NoPasaran]

2. VP is another matter

It's not uncommon for rivals to get the running mate slot.

[wyldwolf]

3. Reagan chose Bush, Kerry chose Edwards... FDR and JFK chose rivals

In JFK's case, he chose LBJ for VP and Adlai Stevenson for Ambassador to the United Nations. Srevenson was not an official nominee in 1960 but was the subject of a "draft" movement.

[Freddie Stubbs]

4. Not necessarily rivals, but both Clinton and Bush cabinet members from

the other party in their administration. Clinton had Cohen in Defence and bush had Mineta in Transportation.

[wyldwolf]

5. along the same lines, Roosevelt and Kennedy both put Republicans in cabinet positions

[NoPasaran]

6. As did Richard M Nixon

Who named John Connally (still a Dem at that point in time) Treasury Secretary.

Actually. I think that if we were to go through the lists of cabinet members we would find that including a member or two of the opposition party has not been that rare.

[Capn Sunshine]

7. Ford chose Bush for CIA

Of course, many in Fords cabinet wanted Robert Bork. What if?

[NoPasaran]

8. But had Bush run against Ford?

I remember Reagan challenging Ford in '76, but did GHWB?

[ISUGRADIA]

9. Nixon Admin

George Romney, Mitt's dad, was named to a cabinet position after running against Nixon pre-NH primary.

[NoPasaran]

10. Oh yeah, George Romney

Who said he'd been "brainwashed" into supporting the Vietnam War.