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The School Book Liberals will vote aye for all of the cabinet nominees but want it to be known that a President that does not seek the input of his colleagues across the aisle does not seek to form close working ties across the aisle. We would greatly appreciate being able to be working partners with the President in all that he does and would like to know that even opposing views are heeded in private. Furthermore, we would like to praise the President for creating a cabinet of some of the most effective and capable men in this nation; however, we do wish to air our displeasure at the extremists that would be taken into the cabinet, namely the gentlemen from North Carolina and Utah.

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Senate Minority Leader Jacob Gallinger conveys deep respect to President Wilson for such a fine slate of men to serve our country.  This group crosses the entire political spectrum, and most are held with the upmost esteem by their colleagues.   However, there is one exception.   The Department of Labor's mission of helping all Americans find gainful employment will be derailed by the extremist views that Josephus Daniels has.  His recent comments that  "the greatest folly and crime" in U.S. history was giving "Negroes" the vote (wiki) appalls me.   I think an even greater crime would be to let this man be in charge of the Labor Department.    His actions and comments lead me to rise up in opposition.  I humbly request that President Wilson replace this nominee with someone who has more centrist views and would work for all Americans, not just his white supremist friends.   There are other qualified men who would receive widespread support if their names were placed before this body instead.

We fully 100% support all the other candidates for the Cabinet and urge their expeditious and even unanimous confirmation.  However, we will vote NAY on Daniels and strongly urge other Senators to also rise up in opposition and to defeat his confirmation.

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Confirmation Votes (Committee)

  • Hitchcock - Unanimous
  • Haywood - 22 Yea, 2 Nay
  • Daniels - 19 Yea, 5 Nay
  • Hull - Unanimous
  • Stimson- Unanimous
  • Baker - Unanimous
  • Jones - Unanimous
  • Morgenthau - Unanimous

Confirmation Votes (Floor)

  • Hitchcock - Unanimous
  • Haywood - 86 Yea, 10 Nay
  • Daniels - 76 Yea, 20 Nay
  • Hull - Unanimous
  • Stimson- Unanimous
  • Baker - Unanimous
  • Jones - Unanimous
  • Morgenthau - Unanimous
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Party meters

  • Newton Baker (0ccult) satisfies Reformists and Labor Unions.
  • Cordell Hull (Pman) does not satisfy any of the interests and lobbies
  • Daniel Roper (Pman) does not satisfy any interests and lobbies
  • Frank H Hitchcock (Vols) does not satisfy any interests and lobbies
  • Jesse H Jones (0cc) satisfies Reformists and Labor Unions
  • Josephus Daniels (brad) satisfies RW Activists. No meter change
  • Henry L. Stimson (Vols) satisfies Military-Industrial and Expansionists. Moves Moderates +2 Blue (93 and 98)
  • Bill Haywood (Murr) satisfies Reformists
  • Henry Morgenthau (Murr)

Non-Satisfied

  • Nationalists: No change (43)
  • Pacifists: No change (66 & 40)
  • Theocrats: No change (71, 42 & 97)
  • LW Activists: No change (68)
  • Big Agriculture: No change (94 & 48)
  • Big Corporations: Rolled 22! Moderates move +1 Red, No change (79)
  • Wall Street: No change (46). Rolled 13! Moderates Move +1 Red
  • Public Education: Rolled 10! Moderates Move +1 Red
  • Private Education: No change (65)
  • Environmentalist: No change (94)
  • Globalists: No change (68, 85)
  • Public Housing: Rolled 12! LW Pop and Progressives move +1 Red
  • Law & Order (Big Prison): No change (84, 90)
  • Human Rights: Rolled 24! Moderates Move +1 Red, No change (43)
  • LW Media: Rolled 23! Liberals move +1 Red, No change (67)
  • Transportation: No change (78)
  • Welfare: Rolled 7! LW Pop and Progressives move +1 Red

Total Change

  • Moderates: 2B, 4R is +2R
  • LW Pop: +2R
  • Progs: +2R
  • Liberals: +1R
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Secretary of State Robert Lansing is pleased to announce the following slate of nominations:

Ambassador to the UK: Walter Hines Page @0ccultist
Ambassador to France: Nelson T Johnson @ShortKing
Ambassador to Spain: William H Moody @Vols21
Ambassador to Germany: Myron T Herrick @Ich_bin_Tyler
Ambassador to Russia: Frank Kellogg @Willthescout7
Ambassador to China: Charles G Dawes @Ich_bin_Tyler
Ambassador to Japan: Elihu Root @Lars

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Points

  • ShortKing +110 (State, Amb to France)
  • 0ccult +160 (Treasury and Commerce, Amb to UK)
  • Pman +200 (War and Attorney General)
  • Murrman +150 (Interior, Key Adv, PM Gen, and Fed Chair)
  • Vols +110 (Sec Nav, Agri, Amb to Spain)
  • BradleyG +50 (Labor)
  • Tyler +20 (Amb to Germany, Amb to China)
  • Will +10 (Amb to Russia)
  • Lars +10 (Amb to Japan)
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Secretary of War Cordell Hull is honored to follow through with his pledge of a military that has no loyalty to any political party but rather to the United States of America. Below are our appointments. 

Senior General: Tasker Bliss- pman

Chief of Navy: William D Leahy- vols

1)Army General: John J Pershing-vols

2)Army General: Chester Nimitz- pman 

3)Army General: George Marshall- pman

4)Army General: Leonard Wood- Tyler

5)Army General- Emilio Aquinaldo- OCC

6)Army General- George S Patton- SK

 

 

 

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Elihu Root is pleased to have discovered a new thing called "hentai" on his first day at work.

 

And before you says "it wasnt invented yet", remember that "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" was painted in 1814.

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