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Cabinet
1993 Harry Haldeman, Nixon's cabinet member (1968-73), dies

1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

1966 Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)

1966 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon

1954 James E. Wilkins is 1st black to attend a U.S. cabinet meeting

1943 Conrad Veidt, German/US actor (Cabinet of Dr. Calgary), dies at 50

1943 Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)

1933 Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member

1933 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

1932 Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres

1931 Gerald Warner, deputy secretary, Cabinet Office

1928 Constance Ford, U.S. actress, Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World

1924 Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st U.S. black woman cabinet member

1899 Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist, New York City cabinet

1893 Conrad Veidt, Potsdam Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Calgary

1884 Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street

1873 Chard Somerset, 1st woman Cabinet minister, 1929-31

1873 Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member

1868 1st black cabinet member in South Carolina (Francis L Cardozo-sect of state)

1861 Lincoln's cabinet declares Union government will pay for expenses once states have mobilized volunteers

1808 Salmon P Chase, Sen-R, cabinet member, 6th chief justice, 1864-73

1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington's home)



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