Cabinet picks for Gore

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*Handwave*, Gore wins in 2000, what kind of people would be in Gore's cabinet (2001 - 2005)?

President: Al Gore (D)
Vice President: Joe Lieberman (D)
Secretary of State: Bill Richardson (D)
Secretary of the Treasury: Richard Holbrooke (D)
Secretary of Defense: Colin Powell (R)
Attorney General: John Edwards (D)
Secretary of the Interior: Tom Daschle (D)
Secretary of Agriculture:
Secretary of Commerce:
Secretary of Labor:
Secretary of Health and Human Services:
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:
Secretary of Transportation:
Secretary of Energy:
Secretary of Education:
Secretary of Veterans Affairs:
White House Chief of Staff:
National Security Advisor:

Appointments to the Supreme Court:
 
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President: Al Gore (D)
Vice President: Joe Lieberman (D)
Secretary of State: Richard Holbrooke (D)/ OTL Holbroke has repeatly stated he was Gore's pick, and Gore has never disputed him.
Secretary of the Treasury: This hard, the question is which Gore, the 80s tax cutter,the 2000 campaign reduce the debt, or the post 2001 business is evil, regulator, and go green... I lthink it would end up being someone one of the Charlie Sumners lineage, Wall Street comfortable, but able to talk to Economic Liberals.
Secretary of Defense: John Dalton (D)/ Served as SECNAV under Clinton, rumored to have been the shadow SECDEF, since Cohen was a R. Also job is seen a civilian seat, read no career military.
Attorney General: Eric Holder (D) Gore telegraphed this last months before the election.
Secretary of the Interior: Tom Daschle (D)/Not if the DEMs have control of the new Senate as in OTL. Also rember this the pre-GREEN Gore. Pick a Western POL, this might be his token REP or Harry Reed end of Nuclear policy but he was a development westerner trusted by the enviros...also remember Reed weas not seen as future Majority leader, just a good whip.
Secretary of Agriculture:
Secretary of Commerce: Joseph Andrew/(D) former DNC Chair there was a traditional of DNC Chairs getting Commerence.
Secretary of Labor: Ed Rendell (D)/ good relations with Labor and REP leadership on the hill. Which would have been important, assuming this is win by RECOUNTS, the Unions are going to claim alot of credit, and expect payment NOW, Rendell can handle them.
Secretary of Health and Human Services:
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development:
Secretary of Transportation:
Secretary of Energy: Bill Richardson (D)/ an easy call plus fills the "moderate" card.
Secretary of Education:
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Don't have any ideas but another easy place for the token REP, really is a "policy/hide profile job, especially if under Gore the media ingnores the state of Army hospitals.
White House Chief of Staff: Donna Braziil
National Security Advisor: John Shalikashvili/ one of the few 4 stars totally in line with CLINTON/GORE view of the world and letting State use the US military

To consider, on the bench Gore was rumored to be considering for Cabinet jobs;
Gerald Baliles (D), former Governor and Attn Gen of Virginia, poss Attn Gen , or Transportion (one of VA's few, Allen is the the good transportation GOVs)
Mark Warner (D), then VA Senator, back then a former VA Democratic Party chair, and fund raiser.
Chris Dodd, (D) Conn SEN, poss Heath and Human, or Commerce.
Russ Feingold (D), several possibilities, and close to Gore.
Merrill McPeak (D), former Chairman of the Air Force, advised Gore, and later Obama, most infamous for pulling strips on the USAF officer uniform.
 
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