Note 136 — Chapter XV · THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET
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In addition to the ten regular departments there are other branches of the national administration whose heads are not members of the cabinet. These include such bodies as the Interstate Commerce Commission (p. 364), the Federal Trade Commission (p. 391), the Civil Service Commission (p. 103), the Tariff Commission (p. 370), besides various bureaus of one kind or another. Members of these boards and heads of the independent bureaus are all appointed by the President, responsible to him, and removable by him.