Private citizens such as businessmen or former military officials are also common Cabinet choices.

Other cabinet choices have been withdrawn before a Senate vote.

But full, carefully thought out statements on possible cabinet choices need to be built into the campaigning process.

Aides said he had been repeatedly upset by such reports of likely Cabinet choices in recent weeks.

What conclusions can we draw about the coming Clinton administration from the Cabinet choices so far?

Yet this will be as significant as any cabinet choice, directing more than 25,000 employees with an annual budget of $3.4 billion.

My criteria are his Cabinet choices, his economic outreach and last week's news conference.

Grant took a unique and overly self-confident approach to his cabinet choices.

And they acknowledged that, in the end, Mr. Bush would get his cabinet choices.

Mr. Mandela announced most of the Cabinet choices from his own party last week.