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Is First Lady a Cabinet Post?

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GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani told ABC's "20/20" that if he's elected, he'd let his wife sit in on Cabinet meetings if she felt like it. That allowed the network's "Nightline" to spring a trap for Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic candidate John Edwards, by asking her if she'd like to become a de facto member of her husband's Cabinet if he's elected. But she didn't fall for it, AP reports. Instead, Edwards told the TV news magazine that the first lady has a "great big megaphone, and you get to talk about things you care about, and I hope I'd be busy doing that and mothering my adorable children as opposed to sitting in Cabinet meetings."

Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.

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