Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

Former President César Gaviria became Secretary General of the OAS in September 1994 and was reelected in 1999.

* Colin Powell ( 1958 ), Former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of State

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.

Former Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Al-Araby is the present Secretary General of the Arab League.

* 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.

Former Secretary of State George Shultz commented on the evening, saying " We felt the ice of the Cold War crumbling.

Former Secretary of Defense and future Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney was touted by many as a possible candidate for the presidency, but he declared his intentions not to run in early 1995.

Former and future Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formed a presidential campaign exploratory committee, but declined to formally enter the race.

Former Congressman and Housing Secretary Jack Kemp was nominated by acclamation as Dole's running mate the following day.

* Former Congressman and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp of New York

* Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett

* March 2 – Former U. S. Vice-President Henry A. Wallace starts his term of office as U. S. Secretary of Commerce, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

* October 25 – Former U. S. Interior Secretary Albert B.

Former United States Secretary of State | US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Turkish President Abdullah Gül both wearing Western-style business suits.

Image: JamesBuchanan crop. jpg | Former Secretary of State James Buchanan of Pennsylvania

Image: WilliamLMarcy. png | Former Secretary of War William L. Marcy of New York

Image: JamesGBlaine. png | Former Secretary of State James G. Blaine of Maine

Image: Leslie Shaw, Bain photo portrait. jpg | Former Secretary of the Treasury L. M. Shaw of Iowa

Image: Henry_Breckinridge. jpg | Former Assistant Secretary of War Henry Skillman Breckinridge of New York

Image: William Averell Harriman. jpg | Former Secretary of Commerce W. Averell Harriman of New York

Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger was the first Secretary of Energy, who was a Republican nominated to the post by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, the only time a president has appointed someone of another party to the post.

Former U. S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara refers equivocally to the statement that " war is cruelty and you cannot refine it " in both the book Wilson's Ghost and in his interview for the film The Fog of War.

Former members of the Northern Alliance remained extremely influential, most notably Vice President Mohammed Fahim, who also served as the Defense Minister.

* Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was chairman and chief executive officer of G. D. Searle & Company, which Monsanto purchased in 1985.

* Robert B. Anderson, Former Secretary of the Treasury, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy in the Eisenhower administration

On 28 March 2003, Judicial Watch filed a complaint to the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Defense Department Inspector General, the Office of the Homeland Security Inspector General, United States Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in the matter of Former Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard N. Perle, Former President Bill Clinton, Former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe and Global Crossing.

* September 2, 1986: Former Jewish Defense League National Chairman Victor Vancier throws a tear gas grenade during a performance of Soviet ballet in the Metropolitan Opera House as a protest against the Soviet practice of not letting its Jews emigrate to Israel.

* 2008-2009: Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, and Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni were sometimes referred to as a triumvirate.

Former Secretary of Defense Cohen defended, in his testimony to the 9 / 11 Commission in 2004, along with other cited Clinton security cabinet members in their separate 9 / 11 Commission testimony, the decision to destroy Al Shifa: " At the time, the intelligence community at the highest level repeatedly assured us that " it never gets better than this " in terms of confidence in an intelligence conclusion regarding a hard target.

* Jericho's Fall ( 2009 ) recounts the last days of a " Former Everything " ( including Secretary of Defense and CIA Director ) who is determined to reveal secrets and the struggles that result, all on a Colorado mountaintop and in a small Colorado town.

* Charles Erwin Wilson Former head of General Motors, later Defense Secretary

Former U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld working at a standing desk

Former US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has credited a backchannel Pugwash initiative ( code named PENNSYLVANIA ) with laying the groundwork for the negotiations that ended the Vietnam War.

* Leon Panetta, 23rd United States Secretary of Defense, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) Obama Administration, Former White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton, Former Director, United States Office of Management and Budget, Former Member of U. S. Congress, 17th District

Former Poets: Kay Ryan, Charles Simic, Ted Kooser, Louise Glück, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Karl Shapiro, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Joseph Brodsky, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Hass, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky ( three terms ), Mark Strand, Audre Lorde, and Maxine Kumin, among others.

* Donald Ings 1970, Former Vice President of Caterpillar Inc.

Former Cincinnati Bengals offensive lineman Dave Lapham signed an unusual personal services contract ( rather than a traditional players ' contract ) with billionaire New Jersey Generals owner Donald Trump.

* Donald Paige, 1980 Olympic Team Member: 800m, Former World Record Holder: 1000 yards

* Former State Senator Donald G. Kelly is an NSU alumnus.

Former Michigan State players in the National Hockey League include All Star Defensemen Duncan Keith, Rod Brind ' Amour, Anson Carter, Donald McSween, Adam Hall, John-Michael Liles, Justin Abdelkader, brothers Kelly Miller and Kip Miller, as well as their cousins, brothers Ryan Miller and Drew Miller.

Former faculty and affiliates, Richard Wilbur, Mark Strand, and Donald Hall were United States Poet Laureates.

Former presenters include Peter Snow, a regular for 17 years, Donald MacCormick, Charles Wheeler, Adam Raphael and John Tusa, later boss of the BBC World Service.

Former Orioles owner Eli Jacobs favored naming the new field Oriole Park, while then-Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer favored Camden Yards.

Former Green Party co-leader Rod Donald.

* Donald Petersen, Former Chairman & CEO, Ford Motor Company

Former UB students include Michael Casey ( Yale Younger Poets Award ), Tony Petrosky ( Walt Whitman Award ), Donald Revell ( 2004 Lenore Marshall Prize ), Charles Baxter and Elizabeth Willis.

Former team owner and hockey commentator Donald S. Cherry stepped behind the bench to coach the IceDogs for the 2001 – 02 season, after going through five coaches in three years.

Former U. S. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan is reported to have said of his financial guru, James E. Davis: " When J. E.

Former pupils notable for their military careers are Neville Duke, a World War Two fighter pilot ; Donald Hodge, one of the last surviving veterans of the First World War, and Terence Lewin, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Admiral of the Fleet.

Former Warwickshire Bear and South Africa international Allan Donald has joined the Bears ' coaching staff.

Former President Donald DeRosa retired on June 30, 2009.

Former mayor and governor William Donald Schaefer protested that the stadium was razed for political reasons.

Former Chair of the Department of Economics at George Mason University, Donald J. Boudreaux served as president of the Foundation from 1997 to 2001.

Former two-term Governor William Donald Schaefer ran for comptroller in November 1998 ( Goldstein had already announced he was running for another term before his death and would have almost certainly been re-elected even at age 85 ).

* Dr. Donald Giddon, Former Dean, New York University College of Dentistry, DMD ' 67