Andrew Jackson had his ‘kitchen cabinet.’ May 14, 2019 A portrait of President Andrew Jackson hangs on the wall behind President Trump, accompanied by Vice President Pence, in the Oval Office ...

President Trump’s cabinet is not Jackson’s. In particular, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appear to be working well together.

The term kitchen cabinet is an interesting play on words, ... President Andrew Jackson gathered a group of trusted friends to serve as advisers and ignored his official" Cabinet.

Andrew Jackson embodied the ideal of the self-made American man, ... meeting with an informal group of advisors he called the "kitchen cabinet" instead. Not coincidentally, ...

But once in office he greatly expanded the role of the president and his administration, setting a precedent for 200 years of expanding power, bypassing Congress, using a “kitchen cabinet” of ...