Elite President-Elect Fills Cabinet with Ivy Grads and Assorted Winners

by Dan Haley | November 25, 2008 at 12:47 pm

By now we know Obama appointed Timothy Geithner (Dartmouth '83) Treasury Secretary and Larry Summers (MIT '75 and Harvard '82) head of the National Economic Council. In fact, David Brooks wrote a column in last Friday's New York Times about how "even more than past administrations, this will be a valedictocracy — rule by those who graduate first in their high school classes." What other schools are representing in the Obama inner sanctum of rockstar elite East Coast terrorists?

  • Secretary of State: Hillary Clinton (Wellesley '69, Yale Law '73)
  • Commerce Secretary: Bill Richardson (Tufts '70, Tufts '71)
  • Health and Human Services: Tom Daschle (South Dakota State '69)

Under Consideration:

National Security Adviser:

  • James Jones (Georgetown School of Foreign Service '66, National War College '85)
  • James Steinberg (Harvard '73, Yale Law '78)

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