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.

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.

Other than Bush and Rumsfeld, other traditional conservatives who are thought to have adopted neoconservative foreign policy thinking include Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Donald Rumsfeld, who later became the U. S. Secretary of Defence, was on the board of ABB when it won this deal, but a Pentagon spokeswoman, Victoria Clark, said that Rumsfeld did not recall it being brought before the board at any time.

In that pact, allegedly signed by Donald Rumsfeld, included transportation insurance for themselves and their families outside Iraq, large sums of money, the promise of official positions in Iraq post-invasion for those who had not committed war crimes, including U. S. residency and citizenship for some key leaders.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who described the period of looting in general as " untidiness ", said of the museum's looting, " To try to pass off the fact of that unfortunate activity to a deficit in the war plan strikes me as a stretch.

On 16 April 2004, U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced that he had approved General Abizaid's request and had extended the tour of roughly 20, 000 soldiers, who were scheduled to be rotated out of Iraq, by three months.

# The New York court lacked personal jurisdiction over the named respondent Secretary Rumsfeld who resides in Virginia.

# Secretary Rumsfeld can be named as the respondent to Padilla's habeas corpus petition, even though it is South Carolina's Commander Marr who had immediate physical custody of Padilla, because there have been past cases where national-level officials have been named as respondents to such petitions.

# 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.

Similarly, they noted that the Yaser Hamdi Supreme Court case ( Hamdi v. Rumsfeld ) upon which the court relied, required a habeas corpus hearing for any alleged enemy combatant who demands one, claiming not to be such a combatant, which would require additional judicial or military tribunal oversight over each such detention.

* Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated, " Here was a man who was photographed hundreds of times shooting off rifles and showing how tough he was, and in fact, he wasn't very tough, he was cowering in a hole in the ground, and had a pistol and didn't use it, and certainly did not put up any fight at all.

" He also said that Brown-Waite would support " a properly-worded resolution " that would put forth a no-confidence vote in Congress for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ( who resigned in 2007 ).

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.

* Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces alleged al-Qaida and Taliban fighters, who are being held at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Cuba, may apply annually for release.

The two were among several retired generals who came out in 2006 calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Journalist Walter Pincus points to a passage on page 237 in which Clarke describes a September 4, 2001 meeting of national security principals in which he states Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, " who looked distracted throughout the session, took the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz line that there were other terrorists concerns, like Iraq.

Advocates of preventive war have ranged from Posadist Communists, who argued for war to destroy capitalism, to western neo-conservatives such as George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, who argued that preventive war is necessary in today's post September 11th world.

Hersh claims to have spoken to a senior CIA official who said the program was designed by Rumsfeld to wrest control of information from the CIA, and place it in the hands of the Pentagon.

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.

In 2002, White became involved with a dispute with Donald Rumsfeld over the proposed cancellation of the Army's Crusader artillery project.

During the early 1970s Donald Rumsfeld became Mr. Carlucci's protégé as Mr. Carlucci showed him the ropes.

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.

When news of a detainee known only as Triple X became known to the public in late 2003, U. S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was questioned about him.

Sexual assault of female soldiers overseas became such an issue in the beginning of the war in Iraq that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ordered an investigation and held senate hearings over the matter.

Rumsfeld had added in the original statement in reference to one particular facility, " we saw from the air that there were dozens of trucks that went into that facility after the existence of it became public in the press and they moved things out.

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

( One major United Defense program was the XM2001 Crusader self-propelled howitzer which was canceled by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early 2002 causing United Defense stock prices to fall 27 percent.

Then United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stated:

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.

" According to an unnamed Pentagon source quoted by Hersh, the OSP " was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true — that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States.

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.

Because Padilla was being detained without any criminal charges being formally made against him, he, through his lawyer, made a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, naming then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as the respondent to this petition.

* September 21-U. S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld suggested that the United States would seek to work with the Afghan Northern Alliance in future operations in Afghanistan.

Fernandes ( left ) with United States Secretary of Defense | US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2002

US District Court Justice James Robertson had ruled, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that the military commissions violated International agreements to which the United States was a signatory.

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in July 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States

He entered politics as the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, in the latter administration under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ( 1975 – 1977 ).

In April 2004, it attracted massive negative national attention after placing an advertisement in a Gulfport, Florida weekly The Gabbermildly suggesting the killing of United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U. S. 507 ( 2004 ), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U. S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an " illegal enemy combatant.