# What Cabinet member do you want to be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869 "2016-03-22T16:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/21 "2016-03-22T22:35:21Z")
Defense: when the commander-in-chief has to make the big decisions, I don’t want to be the guy who turned down the job of bringing stuff to his attention. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/22 "2016-03-22T22:55:31Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > A close friend is elected President of the United States. In a blatant act of wild nepotism, they come to you and offer you a Cabinet position, whichever one you want, qualification be damned, and let’s just call it a magical guarantee of Senate approval (or he’s got dirt on every single Senator or whatever). You want the job, it’s yours. > > Which seat do you want? This would be cronyism, not nepotism. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/23 "2016-03-22T23:08:15Z")
You left out Chief of Staff, OMB, EPA, USTR, CEA, SBA, and UN Ambassador. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/24 "2016-03-23T01:29:34Z")
Interior. I’m big on national parks and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/25 "2016-03-23T02:45:55Z")
I’ll take Interior. I’m actually partially qualified and I think I could do a good job. Of course the job market after I was done would be very fruitful while most of the other cabinit positions just end up consultants and lobbiest while interior has some real job possibilities. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/26 "2016-03-23T02:58:25Z")
Is the Chief Technology Officer part of the cabinet? I’d have selected that if I thought of it before selecting Sec Def on the poll. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/27 "2016-03-23T03:43:54Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Is the Chief Technology Officer part of the cabinet? I’d have selected that if I thought of it before selecting Sec Def on the poll. I believe that would be under the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a.k.a. President’s Science Advisor. I don’t see OSTP called “Cabinet level” anywhere, unlike the agencies I mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/28 "2016-03-23T03:44:15Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > Is the Chief Technology Officer part of the cabinet? I’d have selected that if I thought of it before selecting Sec Def on the poll. SecDef gets you DARPA, right? Plus the DIA’s Directorate For Science And Technology, and the National Reconnaissance Office, and Air Force Space Command, and everything else from the Office of Naval Research to the Army Corps of Engineers? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/29 "2016-03-23T03:49:27Z")
Secretary of the Interior Immediately after taking office I will depart for an exhaustive tour of all of the National Parks and Monuments. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/30 "2016-03-23T04:24:00Z")
Other - Secretary of Keepin It Real ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/31 "2016-03-23T05:14:43Z")
Energy. Bring on the nukes. Barring that, I want in on some of those sweet big oil dollars. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/32 "2016-03-23T14:27:55Z")
Other. With the love of nature, history and all I would go a little lower on the food chain and maybe director of the National Parks System. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/33 "2016-03-23T14:44:44Z")
Sec. of the Interior. Get paid to travel to all the National Parks and hike, hunt, fish and camp? I’m in! A close second would be Sec of the Treasury, but signing all that damn paper money would cause one helluva case of writer’s cramp. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869/34 "2016-03-23T16:38:32Z")
I’ll take Treasury. Besides being a bean counter myself, the Treasury department ultimately oversees the IRS, and administrative changes in how the IRS operates could have a real impact on nearly every person in the county. As for travel… well, the IRS has offices all over the country. Ogden, Cincinnati, Fresno to name a few… it’s a veritable where’s where of top tourist destinations. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-cabinet-member-do-you-want-to-be/749869.md?page=1)