Sentences with phrase «u.s. cabinet post»
Frances Perkins was the first woman to hold a U.S. cabinet post when she served as secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s.
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President - elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.
Mr. Dion, who was judged to be too prickly to handle the U.S. file, was said to be unhappy with being dropped from cabinet and is pondering with his family whether to accept the diplomatic posting.