Nixon Cabinet

Members of US President-elect Nixon's new cabinet posing for a group photo at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, December 11th 1968. Their appointments had been announced during a live television broadcast at the hotel. Back row (L-R): John Mitchell, Attorney General; Maurice H Stans, Commerce; Winton Blount, Postmaster General; Clifford Hardin, Agriculture; George P Shultz, Labor; Robert H Finch, Health, Education and Welfare. Front row (L-R): John Volpe, Transport; Melvin Laird, Defense; David Kennedy, Treasury; William P Rogers, State; Walter Hickel, Interior; George Romney, Housing and Urban Development. (Photo by UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)