"Bush's Cabinet Increasingly a D.C. Crowd"

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is fond of saying "all wisdom does not reside in Washington, D.C.," yet he has drawn heavily from the capital's corridors in building his second-term Cabinet. All but two of his nine new picks already serve in the federal government.

Of the two outsiders, one was plucked from state government - Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns, Bush's nominee for agriculture secretary.

The demographic complexion of Bush's second-term Cabinet will look roughly like that of the first term, if all of his nominees are approved by the Senate. They are overwhelmingly male and mostly white, though Hispanics double their representation, to two. There would also be two blacks and two Asian-Americans, but no Arab-American replacing Energy Secretary Spence Abraham.

Nine of Bush's 15 Cabinet members resigned after he won re-election. His choices for replacements offer a glimpse of what he values in the men and women who sit with him periodically in the Cabinet Room.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050112/D87I81DO0.html

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