Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

The Secretary of War gave his assent after studying the history of the draft in the American Civil War as well as the British volunteer system in World War 1.

Secretary of War Baker, blindfolded, put his hand into a large glass bowl and drew the initial number of those to be called.

Both Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of Navy Daniels devoted much time and effort to the problem of providing reasonably normal and wholesome activities in camp for the millions of men who had been removed from their home environment.

During the brief Mexican venture Fosdick's report to the Secretary recommended a definite stand by the War Department against the saloon and the excesses of prostitution.

In January 1862, after many complaints of inefficiency and profiteering in the War Department, Lincoln replaced Simon Cameron with Edwin Stanton as War Secretary.

After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln clearly understood that his military decisions would be more effectively carried out by conveying his orders through his War Secretary or his general-in-chief on to his generals, who resented his civilian interference with their own plans.

The second president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau B. Lamar, appointed him Secretary of War on December 22, 1838.

* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

He especially was able to begin a positive relationship with War Secretary Stanton, though it would completely deteriorate later.

" The Situation ", a Harper's Weekly editorial cartoon shows Secretary of War Stanton aiming a cannon labeled " Congress " to defeat Johnson.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

Johnson notified Congress of War Secretary Stanton's suspension and Grant's interim appointment.

Through his allies, Johnson maneuvered among the senators in an attempt to secure a favorable vote ; for example, a pledge was made to Sen. James W. Grimes to install a more highly respected War Secretary and to cease interference with Congress ' Reconstruction efforts.

To fulfill promises made during the impeachment trial, Johnson nominated John M. Schofield as War Secretary, who was confirmed.

In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

The Pals battalions were a peculiarity of the 1914-18 war: Lord Kitchener, the Secretary of State for War, believed that it would help recruitment if friends and work-mates from the same town were able to join up and fight together.

Disraeli's proposal to extend the tax to Ireland gained him further enemies, and he was also hampered by an unexpected increase in defence expenditure, which was forced on him by Derby and Sir John Pakington ( Secretary of State for War and the Colonies ) ( leading to his celebrated remark to John Bright about the " damned defences ").

* Profumo Affair ( 1963 ): Secretary of State for War John Profumo had an affair with prostitute Christine Keeler ( to whom he had been introduced by pimp and drug-dealer Stephen Ward ) who was having an affair with a Soviet spy at the same time.

Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

The late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles considered the 1954 Geneva agreement a specimen of appeasement, saw that resolution would be needed to keep it from becoming a calamity for the West.

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

* Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council leader T. Dan Smith and others ( 1972-4 ): Maudling resigned, Smith sentenced to imprisonment.

Sir John Simon MP, another future Foreign Secretary, was also horrified at the tactics being used.

In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

Although Diem was publicly praised, in private Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conceded that Diem had been selected because there were no better alternatives.

* 1908 – John A. Volpe, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of Transportation ( d. 1994 )

* Samuel Dexter, U. S. Representative, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, administered the oath of office to Chief Justice John Marshall

The highest-ranking official whose term unquestionably continued during the interim was Polk's Secretary of State, James Buchanan ( later elected President himself in 1856 ), whose term did not formally expire until his successor, John M. Clayton, took office on March 7.

Retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Shalikashvili and former Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen opposed the policy in January 2007: " I now believe that if gay men and lesbians served openly in the United States military, they would not undermine the efficacy of the armed forces " Shalikashvili wrote.

In 1992 John Smith made him Shadow Social Security Secretary and three years later Dewar was made a Chief Whip for the Labour Party by Tony Blair,

In 2003, Morris won the Best Documentary Oscar at the Academy Awards, for his film The Fog of War, about the career of Robert S. McNamara, who was famous for having been the Secretary of Defense who had led the nation into the Vietnam War under Presidents John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and who was also crucially involved in having helped President Kennedy avoid a Third World War over the issue of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Among prominent Fifth Monarchists were Thomas Harrison, Christopher Feake, Vavasor Powell, John Carew, John Rogers and Robert Blackborne, Secretary of the Admiralty and later of the British East India Company.

* 1831 – John Aaron Rawlins, American soldier, civil servant, and 29th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1869 )

* 1927 – John Warner, American politician, 61st United States Secretary of the Navy and American politician

Lord Palmerston, who at the time of Louis Bonaparte's 2 December 1851 coup was serving as the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Whig government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the concurrence of the Secretary of State, is authorized and directed, out of the sum covered into the Yugoslav Claims Fund pursuant to subsection ( B ) of this section, after completing the payments of such funds pursuant to subsection ( C ) of this Section, to make payment of the balance of any sum remaining in such fund to the Government of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to the extent required under Article 1 ( C ) of the Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948.

* 1927 – First distance public television broadcast ( from Washington, D. C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover ).

* C. I. Hamilton, " Selections from the Phinn Committee of Inquiry of October – November 1853 into the State of the Office of Secretary to the Admiralty, in The Naval Miscellany, volume V, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, ( London: Navy Records Society, London, 1984 ).

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger signed an agreement to reinstate Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps ( NROTC ) programs at Columbia for the first time in more than 40 years on May 26, 2011.

* C. R. Smith ( Cyrus Rowlett Smith ), U. S. Secretary of Commerce under president Lyndon B. Johnson

Krulak's staff assignments included: operations officer, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines ( 1977 – 1978 ); chief of the Combat Arms Monitor Section at Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D. C. ( 1978 – 1979 ); executive assistant to the Director of Personnel Management, Headquarters Marine Corps ( 1979 – 1981 ); Plans Office, Fleet Marine Forces Pacific, Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii ( 1982 – 1983 ); executive officer, 3rd Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; assistant chief of staff, maritime pre-positioning ships, 1st MEB ; assistant chief of staff for operations, 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade ; and the military assistant to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence, Office of the Secretary of Defense.

He and Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney undertook to modernize the navy and canceled construction contracts that had resulted in inferior ships.

Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q. C.

Under President James Monroe, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun devised the first plans for Indian removal.

* 1922 – In Washington D. C., U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

Monroe made balanced Cabinet choices, naming a southerner, John C. Calhoun, as Secretary of War, and a northerner, John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State.

* 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

On Saturday, January 22, the full cabinet met and only Secretary of War Jefferson Davis and Secretary of Navy James C. Dobbin supported repeal.

* 1909 – U. S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U. S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U. S. Secretary of State

While officials in Washington, D. C. thought the project had merit, and Secretary of State Henry Clay formally presented it to the Congress of the United States in 1826, the plan was not approved.

As a result of this duty, the Oral Secretary is also tasked with writing Section C of the official journal, which comprises the oral interpretations of Court minutes, along with cases and questions put before the court.

When Robert was 17 in 1824, Fitzhugh wrote to the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, urging that Robert be given an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Prominent among the Creoles demanding change were the bourgeois nationalist H. C. Bankole-Bright, General Secretary of the Sierra Leone Branch of the National Congress of British West Africa ( NCBWA ), and the socialist I. T. A.

From 1973 to 1987 he directed the conservation program at World Wildlife Fund-U. S., and from 1987 to 1998 he served as Assistant Secretary for Environmental and External Affairs for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., and in 1994 became Counselor to the Secretary for Biodiversity and Environmental Affairs.