Top 10 Best Cabinet Members
As the President-elect and his transition team think about whom to tap for top jobs in the Obama Administration, TIME looks back on a group of 20th-century Cabinet members who distinguished their offices
In addition to serving as top adviser to his brother John, Robert Kennedy was a tenacious attorney general, doggedly pursuing organized-crime figures like Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa and prioritizing the protection of civil rights leaders. On his retirement from the Department of Justice two months before he was elected to a New York Senate seat in 1964, the New York Times saluted Kennedy for "[doing] much to elevate the standard" for the post.
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