HOW'S YOUR POLITICAL I.Q.?

1. President Bush has just named U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget. When the OMB was created in 1970, who became its first director?

2. What was OMB called before 1970, when it was a smaller agency?

3. The President also appointed Susan Schwab to succeed Portman as U.S. Trade Representative. When the office was created in 1961, who was the first USTR?

4. White House Press secretary Scott McClellan has been in the news of late. When he was named to the position at age 35 two years ago, McClellan was one of the youngest people to ever have served as press secretary to the President, but not the youngest. Who was the youngest presidential press secretary?

5. The White House held its annual Easter Egg roll on the Monday after Easter. What President instituted this tradition?

1. George P. Shultz, later secretary of the Treasury and of State.

2. Bureau of the Budget.

3. Christian A. Herter, former Republican governor of Massachusetts and secretary of state under President Eisenhower, was named the first USTR by President Kennedy.

4. Ron Ziegler, who was named press secretary to President Nixon at age 29 in 1969 and served until Nixon left office in 1974.

5. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878.

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