Lindsay M Chervinsky
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries-- Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph-- for the first cabinet meeting. He had waited two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet, because the US Constitution did not create or provide for such a body. Deciding he needed a group of advisors he could turn to, Washington modeled his new cabinet on the councils of war he had led...