Talk:List of United States political appointments across party lines

message: ===Louis Freeh===
Does Louis Freeh qualify for this list?  A Clinton appointee, as I recall he has been cited in the past in media reports as being of the Republican persuasion.  But he wasn't in elected office and I don't know about any official affiliation.  –Andyluciano 09:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And he did indeed assist Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential campaign. I've added a line on this to the Alan Greenspan article. --Astor Piazzolla 22:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

text: George Tenet was a Democrat. --63.226.104.225 (talk) 17:01, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Individuals to include??

message: Does Louis Freeh qualify for this list?  A Clinton appointee, as I recall he has been cited in the past in media reports as being of the Republican persuasion.  But he wasn't in elected office and I don't know about any official affiliation.  –Andyluciano 09:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Louis Freeh

message: PBS describes Alan Greenspan as a "lifelong Republican" at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/jan-june00/greenspan_1-4.htmlPoshua 15:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And he did indeed assist Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential campaign. I've added a line on this to the Alan Greenspan article. --Astor Piazzolla 22:47, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alan Greenspan

message: Was he a Republican?  He worked for John Heinz, which would suggest so. john k 06:36, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: George Tenet was a Democrat. --63.226.104.225 (talk) 17:01, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: George Tenet

message: Harold L. Ickes should be included. He was a Bull Moose Republican appointed by FDR as Secretary of the Interior and other posts. He was the writer of a diary that was published.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_L._Ickes
*Then, O anonymous one, YOU should include him.—Markles 07:32, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Harold L. Ickes (1874–1952)

message: The fact that Paul Wolfowitz is a registered Democrat seems of dubious relevance here.  I suppose Wolfowitz was a Democrat in the 70s.  But has he supported a Democratic nominee for president since Carter in 1980?  The guy has effectively been a Republican since the early 1980s, and given the shortness of this list, it seems rather absurd to treat him as still a Democrat because he happens to be registered as one (Among other things, he lives in Montgomery County, Maryland, where many of the interesting state and local races are going to be decided in the closed Democratic primary).  I think he should be removed. john k (talk) 22:52, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Paul Wolfowitz

message: Removed Chic Hecht from list. Hecht's ambassadorship terminated on 1 March, 1993 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_the_Bahamas). This is less than 2 weeks after Clinton's 1st inauguration, and does not qualify as an "appointment", only a delayed discharge of duty. SteveStrummer (talk) 19:41, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chic Hecht

message: Is there a list of all the poltiical positions appointed by POTUS (i.e. those who "serve at the pleasure of the president")
Datapolitical 07:28, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Political Positions Appointed by the President?

message: This list includes only:
* appointees whose party affiliation was different from the President's at the time of appointment
* executive branch appointees, appointed by the President
* independent agency appointees
This list does not include:
* independent or non-partisan appointees
* nominally-apolitical appointments (such as Article III judges and military officers)
* members of explicitly  bipartisan (or multipartisan) or commissions
::How do we determine "party affiliation"?  This seems basically useless.  What  I would want is a list of politicians associated with one party who were appointed to executive branch positions by politicians of the other party.  People like  Bill Cohen, or Norm Mineta, or, say, David M. Key (not currently listed) or Henry Stimson.  These are people with longstanding connections to one party, who were appointed to important positions by politicians of the opposite party.  Bill Bennett is some little known academic who was a registered Democrat.  Can one provide any sources at the time who noted Bennett's supposed Democratness, for instance?  Certainly by 1985, his status as a Democrat was rather attenuated. john k 06:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: (proposed) Standards for inclusion

message: Paul Volcker was a democrat originally appointed by Carter who was reappointed by Reagan. Since Greenspan is already up it seems that Volcker should meet the same criteria.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.178.236 (talk) 23:16, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chairman of the Federal Reserve

message: Is there a list somewhere of Cabinet Secretaries who have served more than one president of different parties, as Robert Gates is about to do? Thanks. Simon12 (talk) 05:59, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Secretaries under Multiple Presidents (different parties)

message: We've got to resolve this Robert Gates thing.
He was first appointed by Bush. He was reappointed (or, rather, not sacked) by Obama. That qualifies under the Greenspan standard, at least.
He may not be a 'registered' Republican, but really, I think using 'registration' as the measure of party ID is far, far too restrictive. To define Bill Bennett as an appointment crossing party lines and not Robert Gates strains credulity. Why go against the popular understanding of what the Gates appointment was -- an appointment across party lines -- in order to serve a completely imaginary standard of what constitutes such an appointment?
You can colour him in grey, if you want, to signify an independent. Fine. But to exclude him from the list is ridiculous; it doesn't give the complete picture. Black Regent (talk) 08:06, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, Black Regent. I think the popular understanding is key. Why not add him to the list, with a note stating that he was technically not reappointed, but asked to stay on?  Plainsong (talk) 17:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: David Gergen technically is also an independent, so it would be unfair to not include Gates on that criteria.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.129.16.120 (talk) 17:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Robert Gates

message: I recognize that the content of this article is interesting/necessary, but the title makes me cringe.  "Cross party lines" is such an embarrassing pseudo-metaphor that should be banished from the lexicon or at least quarantined to the talking heads.  Wouldn't a better name involve "opposition party appointments", or "out of party appointments" or something to that extent.  This title is REALLY cringe-worthy. 129.236.10.184 (talk) 16:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Awkward Name

message: George Washington never joined any party and was opposed to all political parties, believing that there should be no parties and all candidates should run as independents.
Therefore, it is not accurate to refer to any appointment made by him as across party lines or to refer to him as a party member.
71.109.152.21 (talk) 16:01, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Inclusion of George Washington appointee is technically inaccurate

message: I can’t help but notice that the article says, “Appointments across party lines are uncommon”. When I looked at the chart, all of the presidents appointed cabinet members opposite their own party. This doesn’t make any sense. For example, Obama, a democrat, filled up his cabinet with all republicans. Why?
WeirdnSmart0309 (talk) 01:05, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appointments Across Party Lines Are Uncommon? 

message: What's the point of this section "Other notable appointments that crossed party lines" ?
Shouldn't those be merged up into the table? 
Sagecandor (talk) 22:32, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other notable appointments that crossed party lines 

message: What happened to the table?? It's been totally ruined. Penpaperpencil (Talk) 12:20, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table has been ruined, please fix it. 

message: Hi, I tried to find a reference for Jared Kushner's political affiliation and I have not found any reputable source that explicitly says that he is a Democrat. Sure, he has donated to Democratic candidates but that does not mean his political affiliation is Democratic. I wanted some clarity on whether we can still keep Kushner's name in the list of Democratic appointments made by President Trump.FlyingBlueDream (talk) 10:33, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: FlyingBlueDream, this article is from NBC, is only a few weeks old, and asserts without equivocation that Jared Kushner *is* (not merely "was") a Democrat: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-rising-powers-white-house-n739126  AuH2ORepublican (talk) 15:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Jared Kushner

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message: Republican John Doar was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1961 to 1965 and Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1961 to 1965.  While he started with the Eisenhower Administration, the bulk of his service was under the Democratic administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.  I tried to add Doar to the list at the cusp of where Kennedy ends and Johnson begins, but I kept messing up the formatting.  Could someone a bit better at this than I am add John Doar to the article?  Thank you.  AuH2ORepublican (talk) 21:12, 22 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Doar 

message: This is a persistent issue on this page. Kushner was not a Democrat when appointed. There are multiple reverts that falsely say he was.   . The source placed in the article did not even support the conclusion that he was a Democrat--just that he wasn't a Republican. So as for whether these claims are true (), (), the answer is no. Urve (talk) 17:48, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kushner, again