Bush administration
There were two Bush administrations so far. The first was the George Herbert Walker Bush administration which succeeded the Ronald Reagan administration. The George W. Bush administration consists or consisted of:
- Richard Cheney (R-WY), Vice-President (GF + G1)
- Ann M. Veneman, Secretary, Department of Agriculture (RR + G1)
- Donald Evans, Secretary, Department of Commerce (G2)
- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary, Department of Defense (RN + GF)
- Rod Paige, Secretary, Department of Education (G2)
- Spencer Abraham, Secretary, Department of Energy (DQ)
- Tommy Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
- Tom Ridge, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security (formed 2001)
- Alphonso Jackson, Acting Secretary; Department of Housing and Urban Development (effective January 28, 2004), replacing Mel Martinez (G2). [1]
- Gale A. Norton, Secretary, Department of the Interior (RR + G1)
- John Ashcroft, Attorney-General, Department of Justice (G1)
- Elaine L. Chao, Secretary, Department of Labor (RR + G1)
- Colin L. Powell, Secretary, Department of State (RR + G1)
- Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary, Department of State (RR + G1)
- Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary, Department of Transportation (BC)
- John Snow, Secretary, Department of the Treasury; replaced Paul O'Neill (GF) (resigned)
- Anthony J. Principi, Secretary, Department of Veterans Affairs (RR + G1)
- Mike Leavitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; replaced Christine Todd Whitman (quit)
- Joshua B. Bolton, Director, Office of Management and Budget; replaced Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr.[2]
- John P. Walters, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy (G1)
- Robert B. Zoellick, Ambassador, U.S. Trade Representative (RR + G1)
- Andrew H. Card, Jr., Presidential Chief of Staff (RR + G1)
- Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor (G1)
- Scott McClellan, White House Press Secretary (G2); replaced Ari Fleischer (G2)
- Karl Rove, White House Senior Advisor (G2)
- Alberto R. Gonzalez, White House Counsel (G2)
- George J. Tenet, Director, Central Intelligence Agency (BC)
- Robert Mueller, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Alan Greenspan, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board (RR + G1 + BC)
- Stephen Friedman, Chairman of the National Economic Council; replaced Lawrence Lindsey (G2) (resigned)
- William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; replaced Harvey L. Pitt
- Scott J. Bloch, Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel; replaced Elaine D. Kaplan (resigned).
Since there are many figures in common between the Ronald Reagan (RR), whose Vice-President George Herbert Walker Bush (G1) inherited the White House, and the George W. Bush (G2) eras, the term Bush League has come into use to describe this group as a whole.
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