Another awesome presidential responsibility: selecting members of the marine mammal commission

Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in ProPublica, March 5, 2013

There’s also a potential upside to having the president appoint board members to minor boards and commissions, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who has studied presidential appointments. The positions are often part-time and don’t pay much. But if appointees get a call from the White House, O’Connell said, they might be more willing to serve.