He gets elected to the Presidency and chooses a Chief of Staff that served as Deputy Under Secretary of Labor during an administration before the current one.
He chooses a Defense Secretary and Secretary of State that served in that same previous administration.
And of course, he chooses as his Vice President one of his previous foes in running for the office.
Barack Obama? No, Ronald Reagan.
At least Obama is choosing men and women who served in the most successful administration in the last 60 years.
Caspar Weinberger - Reagan's Defense Secretary -- deputy director (1970-72) and director (1972-73) of the Office of Management and Budget and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (1973-75)
Alexander Haig - Reagan's Secretary of State (to 1982) -- Was Richard Nixon's chief of staff.
George P. Schultz - Reagan's Secretary of State - United States Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1972 to 1974.
Kenneth Duberstein - Reagan's Chief of Staff -- Deputy Under Secretary of Labor during the Ford Administration.
