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:''For cabinets used in kitchens, see kitchen cabinet.''
The 'Kitchen Cabinet' is a term used by political opponents of U.S. President Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton Affair and his break with Vice President John Calhoun in 1831.[1][2]
In an unprecedented dismissal of five of the six Cabinet officials in the middle of his first term, Jackson dismissed Calhoun's allies Samuel Ingham, John Branch, and John Berrien as well as his own supporters, Secretary of State Martin van Buren and John Eaton. However, Jackson retained van Buren in Washington as the minister to Great Britain.
Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet included his longtime political allies Martin van Buren, Francis Blair, Amos Kendall, William B. Lewis, Andrew Donelson, John Overton, and his new attorney general Roger Brooke Taney. As newspapermen, Blair and Kendall were given particular notice by rival papers.2[3]
Blair was Kendall's successor as editor of the Jacksonian ''Argus of Western America'', the prominent pro-New Court newspaper of Kentucky. Jackson brought Blair to Washington D.C. to counter Calhounite Duff Green, editor of ''The United States Telegraph'', with a new paper, the ''Globe''. Lewis had been quartermaster under Jackson during the War of 1812; Andrew Donelson was Jackson's adoptive son and private secretary; and Overton Jackson's friend and business partner since the 1790s. 3[4]
The first known appearance of the term is in December 1831 correspondence by Bank of the United States head Nicholas Biddle, who wrote of the presidential advisors that "the kitchen . . . predominate[s] over the Parlor." The first appearance in publication was March 13, 1831 by Mississippi Senator George Poindexter, in an article in the Calhounite ''Telegraph'' defending his vote against van Buren as minister to Great Britain:
:The President's press, edited under his own eye, by a "pair of deserters from the Clay party" [Kendall and Blair] and a few others, familiarly known by the appellation of the "Kitchen Cabinet," is made the common reservoir of all the petty slanders which find a place in the most degraded prints of the Union.2
In colloquial use, "kitchen cabinet" refers to any group of trusted friends and associates, particularly in reference to a President's or presidential candidate's closest unofficial advisers. Clark Clifford was considered a member of the kitchen cabinet for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, before he was appointed Secretary of Defense. Robert Kennedy was considered a kitchen cabinet member as well as a Cabinet member while he was his brother's Attorney General.
Ronald Reagan had a kitchen cabinet of allies and friends from California who advised him during his terms. This group of ten to twelve rich businessmen were all strong proponents of the free enterprise system. His wealthy, conservative California backers included: William French Smith, Charles Wick, auto-dealer Holmes Tuttle, Beer baron Joseph Coors, and about six to eight others. Coors was the major funder and most active participant. He also funded many think-tanks and policy institutes at about this time, including the Heritage Foundation.
The term has been adopted in recent years by those in British politics as a term of abuse for the way in which British Prime Ministers (especially Tony Blair) have sidelined the traditional democratic cabinet structures to rely far more on a close group of non-elected advisors and allies. Examples of this practice include Blair's reliance on advisor Andrew Adonis before his appointment to the cabinet. Traditionally, the role of creation of education policy would have rested on the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when formulating policy. However, the phrase was in popular usage to describe British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's inner circle during his earlier terms of office (1964-1970 and 1974-1976), who prior to Tony Blair was the longest ever serving Labour Party Prime Minister.
★ Black Cabinet
★ Brain Trust
1. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, , Sean, Wilentz, W. W. Norton, ,
2. The Life of Andrew Jackson, , Robert V., Remini, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, ,
3. Andrew Jackson, , Sean, Wilentz, Henry Holt and Company, ,
4. John Overton ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''
★ Latner, Richard B. "The Kitchen Cabinet and Andrew Jackson's Advisory System". ''The Journal of American History'', Vol. 65, No. 2 (Sep., 1978), pp. 367-388
★ Longaker, Richard P. "Was Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet a Cabinet?" ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jun., 1957), pp. 94-108
The 'Kitchen Cabinet' is a term used by political opponents of U.S. President Andrew Jackson to describe the collection of unofficial advisors he consulted in parallel to the United States Cabinet (the "parlor cabinet") following his purge of the cabinet at the end of the Eaton Affair and his break with Vice President John Calhoun in 1831.[1][2]
In an unprecedented dismissal of five of the six Cabinet officials in the middle of his first term, Jackson dismissed Calhoun's allies Samuel Ingham, John Branch, and John Berrien as well as his own supporters, Secretary of State Martin van Buren and John Eaton. However, Jackson retained van Buren in Washington as the minister to Great Britain.
Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet included his longtime political allies Martin van Buren, Francis Blair, Amos Kendall, William B. Lewis, Andrew Donelson, John Overton, and his new attorney general Roger Brooke Taney. As newspapermen, Blair and Kendall were given particular notice by rival papers.2[3]
Blair was Kendall's successor as editor of the Jacksonian ''Argus of Western America'', the prominent pro-New Court newspaper of Kentucky. Jackson brought Blair to Washington D.C. to counter Calhounite Duff Green, editor of ''The United States Telegraph'', with a new paper, the ''Globe''. Lewis had been quartermaster under Jackson during the War of 1812; Andrew Donelson was Jackson's adoptive son and private secretary; and Overton Jackson's friend and business partner since the 1790s. 3[4]
| Contents |
| Coinage |
| Popular use |
| See also |
| References |
| Further reading |
Coinage
The first known appearance of the term is in December 1831 correspondence by Bank of the United States head Nicholas Biddle, who wrote of the presidential advisors that "the kitchen . . . predominate[s] over the Parlor." The first appearance in publication was March 13, 1831 by Mississippi Senator George Poindexter, in an article in the Calhounite ''Telegraph'' defending his vote against van Buren as minister to Great Britain:
:The President's press, edited under his own eye, by a "pair of deserters from the Clay party" [Kendall and Blair] and a few others, familiarly known by the appellation of the "Kitchen Cabinet," is made the common reservoir of all the petty slanders which find a place in the most degraded prints of the Union.2
Popular use
In colloquial use, "kitchen cabinet" refers to any group of trusted friends and associates, particularly in reference to a President's or presidential candidate's closest unofficial advisers. Clark Clifford was considered a member of the kitchen cabinet for John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, before he was appointed Secretary of Defense. Robert Kennedy was considered a kitchen cabinet member as well as a Cabinet member while he was his brother's Attorney General.
Ronald Reagan had a kitchen cabinet of allies and friends from California who advised him during his terms. This group of ten to twelve rich businessmen were all strong proponents of the free enterprise system. His wealthy, conservative California backers included: William French Smith, Charles Wick, auto-dealer Holmes Tuttle, Beer baron Joseph Coors, and about six to eight others. Coors was the major funder and most active participant. He also funded many think-tanks and policy institutes at about this time, including the Heritage Foundation.
The term has been adopted in recent years by those in British politics as a term of abuse for the way in which British Prime Ministers (especially Tony Blair) have sidelined the traditional democratic cabinet structures to rely far more on a close group of non-elected advisors and allies. Examples of this practice include Blair's reliance on advisor Andrew Adonis before his appointment to the cabinet. Traditionally, the role of creation of education policy would have rested on the Secretary of State for Education and Skills when formulating policy. However, the phrase was in popular usage to describe British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's inner circle during his earlier terms of office (1964-1970 and 1974-1976), who prior to Tony Blair was the longest ever serving Labour Party Prime Minister.
See also
★ Black Cabinet
★ Brain Trust
References
1. The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, , Sean, Wilentz, W. W. Norton, ,
2. The Life of Andrew Jackson, , Robert V., Remini, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, ,
3. Andrew Jackson, , Sean, Wilentz, Henry Holt and Company, ,
4. John Overton ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''
Further reading
★ Latner, Richard B. "The Kitchen Cabinet and Andrew Jackson's Advisory System". ''The Journal of American History'', Vol. 65, No. 2 (Sep., 1978), pp. 367-388
★ Longaker, Richard P. "Was Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet a Cabinet?" ''The Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', Vol. 44, No. 1 (Jun., 1957), pp. 94-108
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