What I can say is that when it comes to Cabinet service, the President's Cabinet in the first term had remarkably low turnover, historically.
Mrs Arroyo is in the peculiar position of being both a member of the president's cabinet and a leading figure in the main opposition party, created by Mr Ramos.
Clinton was not just the most popular member of the president's Cabinet for the past four years, she had celebrity status and respect almost everywhere she went around the world.
Professor DOUG KMIEC (Pepperdine University): Namely, the responsibility to separate your obligation to be a member of the president's cabinet from your obligation to represent the interests of the law and the Department of Justice.
The number of ministers in President Lula's cabinet now stands at a world-class 35.
She served for two years in President Kibaki's cabinet as assistant minister for the environment and natural resources.
The US treasury secretary was accompanied not only by Mr Bernanke but also by six members of President Bush's cabinet.
Some people, however, reckoned she was steaming because so few members of her party had been included in the president's new cabinet.
But Muhammad-Ali Abtahi, the president's chef de cabinet, defiantly puts it this way.
This is alarming to me, because these are the same tactics she used when she joined President Corazon Aquino's cabinet.
President Ollanta Humala's Cabinet chief, Oscar Valdes, said Thursday that the government remains firm on its intention to regulate the informal mining sector.
Mr Hagel would be the only Republican in President Barack Obama's cabinet if the Senate confirms him to replace outgoing Defence Secretary Leon Panetta.
"Negative public communication, aimed at accessing resources or any other purpose, does not help the image of the country nor does it in any case reflect the true state of affairs, " a spokesman for President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet said in response to Zille's statement.
What should have been a routine shuffle of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's cabinet in late March turned into a messy, two-week scramble for jobs among his supporters.
It is likely that Italy's President Ciampi, who had pushed for Ruggiero's inclusion in the cabinet, will now pressure Berlusconi to appoint a new foreign minister much sooner than that.
CNN: Berlusconi appointed himself as the new foreign minister
Justice Sonia Sotomayor performed the honors for Biden at his home at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where the vice president's extended family and a few Cabinet officials gathered to watch the ceremony.
One analyst, Dr Hamid Ghany, said the president's refusal to swear in the full cabinet could destabilise the country, already deeply split along racial lines.
According to an analysis of the Federal Register by George Mason University's Mercatus Center, the Cabinet departments and agencies finalized 84 such regulations annually on average in President Obama's first two years.
The EU statement said visa bans would be suspended for Burma's President Thein Sein, vice-presidents, cabinet members and parliamentary speakers.
Ahead of his inauguration as Mexico 's president on December 1st, Vicente Fox completed his cabinet.
In 2008, Ms Maathai was tear-gassed during a protest against the Kenyan president's plan to increase the number of ministers in the cabinet.
Top U.S. government cabinet officials are in Mexico today to talk to President Felipe Calderon about the escalating drug war that is ripping up parts of Mexico.
President Edward Shevardnadze oversaw the resignation of all but three members of Georgia 's cabinet and asked his envoy to Russia to take the top ministerial job.
Although the president's personal approval rating is still running comfortably over 50%, support for her cabinet has plummeted: 74% of Chileans think there should be a reshuffle, according to one recent poll.
The papers also show that there were concerns that ex-Cabinet minister George Brown might be invited to functions during US President Richard Nixon's visit to Britain in 1969.
The president will also have to make some 30 cabinet appointments, according to the Center for U.S Global Engagement -- and all will be subject to approval by the Senate, the upper house of the legislature.
The National Security Council (NSC) is the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters with his senior national security advisors and cabinet officials.
And news leaked out Friday that Tim Geithner, who is the president of the New York Federal Reserve, will be the first official member of the incoming administration's Cabinet.
Former International Development Secretary Clare Short, who also resigned from the Cabinet after the war, also told the inquiry on Tuesday that Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush decided to go to war last summer -- and that it had to be in the spring.
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