Tanner '88

Tanner '88 was a groundbreaking HBO television series. Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, it went behind the scenes of the fictional campaign of former Michigan Congressman Jack Tanner in his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic party's nomination for the U.S. presidential election, 1988.

Cabinet

Jack Tanner's proposed cabinet (quotes from their appearances on the show):

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• Nicholas von Hoffman, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
• Barbara Jordan, US representative to the United Nations
• Joan Claybrook, Secretary of Transportation
• Ralph Nader, Attorney General ("I stand for law and order against corporations.")
• Gloria Steinem, Secretary of Health and Human Services ("I've spent most of my time picketing outside those buildings...")
• Art Buchwald, ambassador to France ("if they agree to send me American food, I'm willing to be ambassador to France")
• Lee Hamilton, Secretary of State ("I think we have the possibility to see a new climate between the two great superpowers in the world")
• Studs Terkel, Secretary of Labor ("too much specialization...I'm a generalist")
• Robert Redford, Secretary of the Interior
• Lee Iacocca, Secretary of Defense
• Jim Hightower, Secretary of Agriculture