Obama Diversity Promise Makes Second Cabinet Like First
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After being criticized for the lack of diversity among his early Cabinet picks for his second term, President Barack Obama is remaking his new team in the image of his first.
Obama’s selection yesterday of Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx to be his next transportation secretary and the possible nomination this week of Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker as commerce secretary would add a rising young black politician from the South and a woman to his 23 cabinet-level advisers.