The New Executive Elite

Past presidents and the percentage of each president's cabinet appointees who had previously worked in the private sector.

Eisenhower - 57%

Reagan - 56%

GW Bush - 55%

Nixon - 53%

Wilson - 52%

GHW Bush - 51%

FDR - 50%

Truman - 50%

Harding - 49%

Coolidge - 48%

LBJ - 47%

Ford - 42%

Hoover - 42%

Taft - 40%

Clinton - 39%

Roosevelt - 38%

Carter - 32%

Kennedy - 30%

Obama - 8%