Inside Music MediaJerry Del Colliano

We've been hearing a lot lately about how president-elect Barack Obama is channeling his inner Abe Lincoln in putting together his cabinet appointments.

Doris Kerns Goodwin wrote a book called Team of Rivals chronicling the way Lincoln did it.

Lincoln chose the man who ran against him, William Henry Seward, as his secretary of state. Then he crossed to the Democratic party to pick Edwin Stanton as his secretary of war -- the same Edwin Stanton who humiliated him years earlier when they worked together as trial lawyers. There was also Salmon Chase, a Lincoln critic and rival who landed the treasury secretary job as well as&hellip