RECENT NEWS NOTES - 2008
The following items are notes archived from the home page of this site from time to time. Please contact me at Director@Presidential-appointments.org if you have questions or 617 504 3699.
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May 4 2008
May 1 2008:
In less than eight months the new President will select a new cabinet and at least 20,000 new political appointments. The transition to a new government is already in process. Immediately after the election presidential transition will become a formal operation in Washington DC to facilitate the new government that takes office on January 20 2009.
About 2,500 of these appointments will require confirmation by the United States Senate. The transition will take at least a year to complete and there may still be candidates from the present administration in office as late as eighteen months after the new administration takes office.
Presidential appointments will can begin the tracking of the transition process as of May 1, 2008. You will see evidence of this process from now through most of 2009. Most pages will be modified as the policies of the new administration impact the way the next government will operate. (Please review the comments in the center column below.) (4-26-08)
January 29 2008: The Kennedy Family that was left behind is attempting to use a fine family and political tradition to influence a Presidential election. Invoking that history is important to a candidate - but almost nobody under 60 has any remembrance of that era. Clearly - it has an impact. But it also releases the Clintons, particularly Bill Clinton, who owns the practical day to day politics of Democratic Party to enforce the rules of counting votes, to apply the political power they have to the party mechanism, and that is where the real power of the Party is located.
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