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 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked, in 2003, whether he has duct tape, plastic sheeting, and a three-day supply of bottled water at home.

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 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

From this date until the death of Former U. S. President James Madison on June 28 1836, there are a total of 19 Presidents of the United States ( 3 former, 1 current, and 15 known future ) living ; which is more than any other time period in U. S. history.

Image: JWWadsworth. jpg | Former Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth, Jr. of New York

* November 3 Former Enron finance director Dan Boyle and former Merrill Lynch bankers Daniel Bayly, Robert Furst, William Fuhs and James Brown are each convicted of one conspiracy count and two counts of wire fraud and face up to 15 years in prison

Former Republican U. S. Representative from Michigan, Robert James Huber, is buried in Hope, but he did not live there.

Former Cavaliers forward LeBron James, who was the first overall pick of the 2003 NBA Draft.

Former U. S. President James A. Garfield was born in what was Cuyahoga County's Orange Township.

* Former North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture James Allen Graham was born and raised in Cleveland.

Former Louisiana State University president James Monroe Smith taught at Eros High School in the 1911-1912 academic year.

Former U. S. Representative James H. Morrison, who held Louisiana's 6th congressional district seat from 1943 to 1967, was born in 1908 in Hammond.

* James P. Shannon, Former Roman Catholic Bishop from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, only Bishop to leave the priesthood after Vatican II.

Former U. S. President James A. Garfield resided in Hiram as a student, instructor, and principal at Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, now Hiram College.

Former Roane Iron employee James Tarwater founded Rockwood Mills, which manufactured hosiery, in 1905.

* Former President of the United States Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to William H. Crawford, Secretary of War under President James Madison, on June 20, 1816: " In your letter to Fisk, you have fairly stated the alternatives between which we are to choose: 1, licentious commerce and gambling speculations for a few, with eternal war for the many ; or, 2, restricted commerce, peace, and steady occupations for all.

Former stage magician James Randi is a well-known investigator of paranormal claims.

* James Stockdale ( 1946, deceased )-Retired Vice-Admiral, US Navy & Former U. S. Vice-Presidential candidate, member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

* James Njenga Karume, Former MP, and Minister in Kibaki's government.

Former Shreveport Mayor James C. Gardner of Shreveport, who at the time lived only two blocks from Brooks, said in his memoirs that he believes Brooks ' death was " largely a result of the strain that he experienced from the Rules Committee vote.

Former Texas Secretary of State Jack Rains contacted the Chronicle's James Howard Gibbons, alleging that the poll appeared to incorrectly count non-Republican Primary voters in its sample.

Former employees of ARDC went on and established several prominent venture capital firms including Greylock Partners ( founded in 1965 by Charlie Waite and Bill Elfers ) and Morgan, Holland Ventures, the predecessor of Flagship Ventures ( founded in 1982 by James Morgan ).

Former notable pupils in theatre and film include Jason Flemyng, Leo Gregory, James D ' Arcy, Michael Wilding, and Roger Allam.

Former gubernatorial candidate James D. Johnson, by then an elected Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, narrowly won the Democratic nomination over another justice, the moderate Frank Holt.

Former Franklinites appointed to lower government offices included Joseph Hardin, William Cage, James White, Dr. James White and Francis Alexander Ramsey.