When he was a governor, Mitt Romney prided himself on bringing in the best and the brightest. As president, he would be under pressure to tend to Republican Party interests in stocking the government with loyalists.
If Romney wins on Nov. 6, here are the names you can expect to see in the next administration. (Read the full story here).
Click the position title below to see more about each potential power player.
- Mike Leavitt (Chief of staff)
- Beth Myers
- Jack Gerard
- Bob White
- Ed Gillespie
- Peter Flaherty
- Eric Fehrnstrom
- Gov. Bill Weld
- Rob Portman
- Robert Zoellick
- Jon Huntsman
- Robert Kimmitt
- Richard Williamson
- John Bolton
- Colin Powell
- Robert Zoellick
- Jim Talent
- Richard Wiley
- Michael Chertoff
- Kenneth Wainstein
- Bob McDonnell
- Chris Christie
- John Cornyn
- Mike Lee
Central Intelligence Agency Director
- David Petraeus
Director of National Intelligence
- Cofer Black
- Michael Hayden
- Richard Williamson
- Mitchell Reiss
- Eric Edelman
- Elliott Abrams
- Dan Senor
- Frances Townsend
- Michael Hayden
- Kris Kobach
- Thaddeus Allen
- William Barr
- Michael Mukasey
- Joe Lieberman
- Glenn Hubbard
- Robert Zoellick
Office of Management and Budget Director
- Douglas Holtz-Eakin
- Jim Nussle
- Judd Gregg
- Rob Portman
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman
- Glenn Hubbard
- Greg Mankiw
- John Taylor
- Kevin Hassett
- Tom Stemberg
- Bob White
- Carly Fiorina
- Kerry Healey
- James Connaughton
- Jack Gerard
Health and Human Services Secretary
- Mike Leavitt
- Tim Murphy
- Tevi Troy
- Scott Gottlieb
- Mark McClellan
- Bobby Jindal
Housing and Urban Development Secretary
- Rick Lazio
- Brian Sandoval
- Susana Martinez
- Luis Fortuno
- Bob Beauprez
- James Inhofe
- Bill Kilberg
- Jim Talent
- Adam Putnam
- Chuck Conner
- Bob McDonnell
- Luis Fortuno
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Mica
- Marion Blakey
- Michelle Rhee
- Joel Klein
- Tom Luna
- Tony Bennett
- Chris Cerf
- Nina Rees
- Tim Pawlenty
- Bobby Jindal
- Susana Martinez
- Susan Dudley
- Ann Klee
- James Connaughton
- Jeff Holmstead
- Greg Abbott
- Robert Bork
- Paul Clement
- Viet Dinh
- Miguel Estrada
- Jeffrey Sutton
- Diane Sykes
- Michael McConnell
- Brett Kavanaugh
- Janice Rogers Brown
- John Taylor
- Glenn Hubbard
- Greg Mankiw
- Martin Feldstein
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