First Read: “First time since ’89 that white men will fill Top 4 cabinet posts: As NBC’s Peter Alexander pointed on Today this morning, this will be the first time since 1989 when the top four cabinet posts — for secretary of state, attorney general, Treasury secretary, and Defense secretary — all went to white wen. And as Rachel Maddow noted last night, if Trump’s eventual Agriculture secretary pick is a white man, then the line of succession to the presidency will be 12 white men. That’s not a lot of diversity.”
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