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The United States on September 11, 1998

Who held every office, how Congress and the Court were made up, and what happened within a week. Diff this day against today →

President

Clinton

William Jefferson Clinton D · since Jan 20, 1997

Senate

55 R · 45 D

100 senators · 105th Congress

House

228 R · 207 D

435 representatives

Supreme Court

7 R · 2 D

9 justices by appointing party

Union

50 states

27 amendments in force

Unemployment

4.5%

Aug 1998 · $1 then ≈ $2.06 today

Public debt

$5.55T

as of Sep 11, 1998

1998-09-11/executiveThe administration

President William Jefferson Clinton D

since Jan 20, 1997

Vice President Albert Arnold Gore Jr. D

Secretary of Education Richard Riley D

since Jan 21, 1993

Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt D

since Jan 22, 1993

Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala D

since Jan 22, 1993

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Carol Browner D

since Jan 23, 1993

Attorney General Janet Reno D

since Mar 12, 1993

Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin D

since Jan 10, 1995

Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman D

since Mar 30, 1995

Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet D

since Dec 15, 1996

White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles D

since Jan 20, 1997

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright D

since Jan 23, 1997

Secretary of Defense William Cohen R

since Jan 24, 1997

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo D

since Jan 29, 1997

Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley D

since Jan 30, 1997

Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater D

since Feb 14, 1997

Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman D

since May 1, 1997

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Togo D. West, Jr. D

since Jan 2, 1998

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jack Lew D

since May 21, 1998

Ambassador to the United Nations Peter Burleigh

since Aug 18, 1998

Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson D

since Aug 18, 1998

1998-09-11/congress105th Congress

Senate · 55 R · 45 D

House · 228 R · 207 D

1998-09-11/supreme-courtThe bench

John Paul Stevens R

Associate Justice · appointed by Gerald Ford · since Dec 17, 1975

Sandra Day O'Connor R

Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 22, 1981

William Hubbs Rehnquist R

Chief Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986

Antonin Scalia R

Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Sep 25, 1986

Anthony McLeod Kennedy R

Associate Justice · appointed by Ronald Reagan · since Feb 11, 1988

David Hackett Souter R

Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 3, 1990

Clarence Thomas R

Associate Justice · appointed by George H.W. Bush · since Oct 18, 1991

Ruth Bader Ginsburg D

Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 5, 1993

Stephen Gerald Breyer D

Associate Justice · appointed by William J. Clinton · since Aug 3, 1994

1998-09-11/weekWithin a week · Sep 4, 1998 – Sep 18, 1998

Order Greening the Government Through Waste Prevention, Recycling, and Federal Acquisition

Sep 14, 1998 · EO 13101

Each office is shown as it stood at the end of the day. Cabinet records come from Wikidata and have gaps for some historical offices.