New members of the president’s cabinet take the oath of office in surroundings that reflect the dignity and the power and of their position. Since 1960 that place, with few exceptions, has been the White House or somewhere in Washington. D. C. No wonder Lawrence O’Brien, a city boy from Boston (and future Commissioner of the National Basketball Association), looked like a Baptist at the Vatican taking his oath as Lyndon Johnson’s Postmaster General on the front porch of the Hye General St ...
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