If you search this text string “Any conflicts must be remedied by divestiture, the creation of special trusts,” you get this website from George Bush’s administration (among others):

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/appointments/text/

So it apparently is just recycled.

What I always found interesting was this questionnaire apparently used when Obama was the president elect:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/13apply_questionnaire.pdf

It included questions about who had been your cohabitants, religious organizations you were a part of and questions about any medical treatment you were receiving. That struck me at the time as pretty unconstitutional, and many found the questions to be very prying (i.e. questions about diaries) but people were very high on the hope and change rhetoric at the time.

[quote=spdrun]If you’re a …
* liberal
* moderate
* civil libertarian

… or any combination of the three, apply now. Pass it on to anyone who’s anyone to apply. Any administration has to at least pretend to embrace dissenting views. The more diverse in opinion Trump’s applicant pool is, the more likely people with dissenting views are to be hired, so as to moderate his worst impulses.[/quote]I looked at the site and the app is very, very onerous. The vast majority of the (Deplorable) Blows (Joe, John and Billy Bob) as well as the Clinton cohort of corrupt-at-the-core Dems and her immature, soft millenial ex-Bernie supporters won’t qualify. The “transition team” will no doubt find all their skeletons faster than they can book a plane reservation to come to Washington for an interview :=0

The transition team app on https://apply.ptt.gov is much better (at least preliminarily) because they are temporary, non-civil service positions and are not official appointments. I told Ben Carson on Saturday morning I would be more than happy to lend a hand on decimating the ACA, should he be in charge of that. I would immediately set about preparing Congress to (partially) repeal the Federal Medicaid estate recovery law as it applies to the collection of managed care premiums for age 55 and up. I believe the states (who have expanded Medicaid on the books) would quickly follow. CA’s do-nothing Governor has been dragging his feet on signing SB-33, introduced 12/1/14 by Senator Ed Hernandez (D West Covina) to fix this problem. It’s a travesty and the presence of this portion of the law still on CA’s books is preventing MANY people over the age of 55 from signing up on the exchange. And I don’t blame them. They would rather go without coverage than put their family home on the line and rightly so.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/15-16/bill/sen/sb_0001-0050/sb_33_bill_20141201_introduced.html

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB33

I wouldn’t mind taking a civil service position with the Trump Administration (H&HSA?) and could easily pass their background exam but I would prefer to stay in CA for two more years, until my youngest graduates from college.