Nowhere was this success more evident than in the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. His election represents a giant step in creating a political leadership profile that looked like America with respect to race. Further, he appointed a cabinet that was pluralistic (representative) not only in terms of race but also of gender, ethnicity, political affiliation, ideology, experience, style, education, and other attributes. Because these people cared deeply about the United States and its challenges and opportunities, they held the potential not to be simply a pluralistic (representative) mixture but also a source of diverse behavior. President Obama expected his cabinet to generate and passionately present a multitude of diverse prescriptions for their various policy areas.