The President selects nominees because of their views, not despite them.

"We had hoped that the President would have selected someone with hands-on classroom experience to fill the education post."

The President recently selected him as the nation's counter-terrorism coordinator, a new and powerful post.

Women's groups immediately began lobbying the President to select another woman.

The option that the President has selected, his aides say, will probably cost just under $11 billion.

Under the law, the President selects one of the commissioners as chairman.

The President, in choosing one of these names, would not be selecting someone without a "paper trail."

Your President will select someone he feels deserves the post and is qualified.

Today, the President only formally appoints the government, but cannot select or remove individual members.

The President could select one of the candidates or reject all three and ask the panel for new names.