Not ruled by our peers?

The percentage of each past president's cabinet who had worked in the private business sector prior to their appointment to the cabinet.  You know what the private business sector is;  a real-life business,  not a government job.   Here are the percentages.


T. Roosevelt             38%
Taft                          40%
Wilson                      52%
Harding                   49%
Coolidge                  48%
Hoover                    42%
F. Roosevelt            50%
Truman                   50%
Eisenhower             57%
Kennedy                 30%
Johnson                  47%
Nixon                      53%
Ford                        42%
Carter                     32%
Reagan                    56%
GH Bush                 51%
Clinton                    39%
GW Bush                 55%
Obama                      8%