Top 10 Worst Cabinet Members
Sometimes those purported to be the best and the brightest are anything but. In the spirit of not making the same mistakes twice, TIME examines some of modern history's less-than-fabulous Cabinet appointments
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Worst Cabinet Members
- A. Mitchell Palmer - Attorney General, 1919-1921
- Albert Fall - Secretary of the Interior, 1921-1923
- Robert McNamara - Secretary of Defense, 1961-1968
- Earl Butz - Secretary of Agriculture, 1971-76
- John Mitchell - Attorney General, 1969-1972
- James Watt - Secretary of the Interior, 1981-1983
- Hazel O'Leary - Secretary of Energy, 1993-1997
- Donald Rumsfeld - Secretary of Defense, 1975-77, 2001-2006
- Michael Brown - Director of FEMA*, 2003-2005
- Alberto Gonzales - Attorney General, 2005-2007
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