Combining his two non-sequential services as Secretary of Defense, the second longest serving is Donald Rumsfeld, who served merely ten days fewer than McNamara.

In 2001, Coats was reportedly one of George W. Bush ’ s top choices to be Defense Secretary, a job eventually given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served as United States Secretary of Defense.

From 2001 to 2005, during the George W. Bush administration, Wolfowitz served as U. S. Deputy Secretary of Defense reporting to U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

In 2001, President George W. Bush asked Khalilzad to head the Bush-Cheney transition team for the Department of Defense and Khalilzad briefly served as Counselor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Donald Rumsfeld was another Chief of Staff for Ford and subsequently served as Secretary of Defense both in the Ford administration and decades later in the George W. Bush administration.

) Garner served on a presidential panel, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, which specializes in space and missile threats.

In the next few years, he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ( 1973 – 1975 ), Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ( 1975 – 1976 ), Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ( 1976 – 1977 ), and member of the staff of Senator William Roth ( 1976 – 1977 ).

As a flag officer, he served as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessments for the Commander, U. S. Pacific Fleet ; Director of Submarine Warfare for the Chief of Naval Operations ; Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Resources, Requirements, and Assessments ; and as the Senior Military Assistant to Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Darby initially wanted to remain anonymous, and had been assured of anonymity — he and those implicated all served in the 372nd Military Police Company, but became known after Donald Rumsfeld publicly named him during a Senate hearing.

Rumsfeld, who had endured several calls for his resignation but had won what many thought was an assurance of his job security as recently as November 1 by Bush's voiced confidence in his job performance, served until the confirmation of his successor, whom Bush nominated that day to be former CIA Director Robert Gates.

Donald Rumsfeld served as CEO, and then as President, of Searle between 1977 and 1985.

She also served as an advisor to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on operational issues.

Frank G. Hickey served as CEO from 1975 to 1990, and Donald Rumsfeld did from 1990 to 1993.

Victoria " Torie " Clarke ( born May 18, 1959 ) is an American communications consultant who has served in several private sector positions and in three Republican presidential administrations, most notably as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld.

He also served as senior military assistant to Secretaries of Defense James R. Schlesinger and Donald Rumsfeld.

* 1932 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician, 13th and 21st United States Secretary of Defense

Eagle Scouts can be found in prominent public offices, as recipients include 38th President of the United States Gerald R. Ford, 22nd U. S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 13th and 21st U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Stephen Breyer.

Crane was first elected to the United States Congress in what was then the 13th District in a 1969 special election, succeeding Donald Rumsfeld, who was appointed to a position in the Nixon administration.

On September 12, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dedicated the Victims of Terrorist Attack on the Pentagon Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

* 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.

In December 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came under criticism from U. S. soldiers and their families for not providing better-equipped HMMWVs.

The gag order was supposedly at the request of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

* briefing by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, 19 September 2001

* U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld meets with President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt.

Rumsfeld, who became United States Secretary of Defense | U. S. Secretary of Defense during the George W. Bush administration, led the coalition forces during the Iraq War

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld reportedly offered him the position of Army Chief of Staff, but he declined.

The authors also suggest that Franks was worn down by repeated pressure from U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to reduce the number of U. S. troops in war plans and cancel the deployment of the 1st Cavalry Division, a scheduled follow-on unit that was slated for deployment in April 2003.

Some close to him argued he was more thoughtful than he seemed, was aware that Secretary Rumsfeld and his staff were unable to discuss the Iraq War in military terms and had an obligation to put forth stronger objections to the civilian control of military planning.

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

* July 9 – Donald Rumsfeld, former U. S. Secretary of Defense

In May 2012 the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

In early May 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld cancelled the $ 11 billion USD program because he considered it neither mobile nor precise enough.

In December 2004, a controversy arose when it was revealed that United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, was using an autopen to sign letters-of-condolence to families of American military members who had died in the line of duty while serving under Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked thus in 2006, in a statement taken to reflect his view of the Doctrine's efficacy: " If I were rating, I would say we probably deserve a D or D + as a country as how well we're doing in the battle of ideas that's taking place.

The opposing view, argued by Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a number of influential Department of Defense policy makers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, held that direct and unilateral action was both possible and justified and that America should embrace the opportunities for democracy and security offered by its position as sole remaining superpower.

Muravchik called former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ( a traditional conservative ) a neoconservative hero and champion of military strategy, but claimed that the strength of the neoconservatives is their ideology as foundation for policies, and this strength is also recognized by political scientists.

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

Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U. S. Congressman from Illinois ( 1962 – 1969 ), Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity ( 1969 – 1970 ), Counsellor

DADT was upheld by five of the federal Courts of Appeal, The Supreme Court, in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights, Inc. ( 2006 ), unanimously held that the federal government could constitutionally withhold funding from universities, no matter what their nondiscrimination policies might be, for refusing to give military recruiters access to school resources.

Following the primary show, Dr. Friedman would engage in discussion with a number of selected debaters drawn from trade unions, academy and the business community, such as Donald Rumsfeld ( then of G. D. Searle & Company ) and Frances Fox Piven of City University of New York.

The Office of Strategic Influence, or OSI, was a department created by the United States Department of Defense on October 30, 2001, to support the War on Terrorism through psychological operations in targeted countries, which did not include the United States because the Pentagon is barred from PSYOPs in the U. S. Although the closure of the office was announced by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld soon after its existence became publicly known, later comments by Secretary Rumsfeld imply that the actual operations of the OSI have continued unabated.

" Worden, as well as then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld planned for what they called " a broad mission ranging from ' black ' campaigns that use disinformation and other covert activities to ' white ' public affairs that rely on truthful news releases.

In February 2002, amid a backlash of public outcry resulting from a New York Times article, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claimed he lacked knowledge of the program and the OSI was closed down.

Wolfowitz broke from this official line by denouncing Saddam Hussein of Iraq at a time when Donald Rumsfeld was offering the dictator support in his conflict with Iran.

Reporters Without Borders demanded proof from Donald Rumsfeld that the incidents " were not deliberate attempts to dissuade the media from reporting.

In a transcript of a Department of Defense news briefing from February 12, 2002, Rumsfeld ruminated on " The Unknown ":

In an effort by the United States to pressure Belgium, United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld threatened to remove the NATO Headquarters from Brussels unless the Law was changed.

He graduated from Wyoming Seminary in 1948 and Princeton University in 1952, where he roomed with Donald Rumsfeld, and attended Harvard Business School for an MBA in 1954-55.

" Further investigation by the Boston Herald revealed that Swanson had also copied some of the rules from former US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and columnist Dave Barry.

# The New York District Court had personal jurisdiction over Secretary Rumsfeld even though Rumsfeld resides in Virginia and not New York because New York's " long arm statute " is applicable to Secretary Rumsfeld, who was responsible for Padilla's physical transfer from New York to South Carolina.

Joining him are, from left: Vice President Dick Cheney, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Sen. John Warner of Virginia, and General Peter Pace, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Following the Supreme Court ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was adverse to the Bush Administration, Warner ( with Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain ) negotiated with the White House the language of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, suspending habeas corpus provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an " unlawful combatant " and barring them from challenging their detentions in court.

On January 22, 2003 Rumsfeld answered a question from Charles Groenhuijsen, a Dutch journalist, about the potential US invasion: