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.

the Army, Navy and Air Force, among others, may question Secretary Freeman's claim that the high estate of United States agriculture is the `` strongest deterrent '' to the spread of communism.

* 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 ).

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

The CMC reports directly to the United States Secretary of the Navy and is responsible for ensuring the organization, policy, plans, and programs for the Marine Corps as well as advising the President, the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of the Navy on matters involving the Marine Corps.

Under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy, the CMC designates Marine personnel and resources to the commanders of Unified Combatant Commands.

" The Commandant is directly responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the total performance of the Marine Corps.

The responsibilities of the Commandant are outlined in Title 10, Section 5043 the United States Code and is " Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of the Navy ".

As stated in the U. S. Code, the Commandant shall preside over the Headquarters, Marine Corps, transmit the plans and recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, to the Secretary and advise the Secretary with regard to such plans and recommendations, after approval of the plans or recommendations of the Headquarters, Marine Corps, by the Secretary, act as the agent of the Secretary in carrying them into effect, exercise supervision, consistent with the authority assigned to commanders of unified or specified combatant commands under chapter 6 of this title, over such of the members and organizations of the Marine Corps and the Navy as the Secretary determines, perform the duties prescribed for him by section 171 of this title and other provisions of law and perform such other military duties, not otherwise assigned by law, as are assigned to him by the President, the Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of the Navy.

Dr. Gordon N. Ray, Provost, Vice-President and Professor of English in the University of Illinois, was appointed Associate Secretary General.

The Trustees of the Foundation appointed Dr. Ray to that position with the stated expectation that he would succeed the present Secretary General upon the latter's eventual retirement.

* Ray Marshall, Secretary of Labor during the Carter administration

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover sent a telegram from Dunsmuir, California, to his friend Dr. Ray L. Wilbur, asking Wilbur to meet and to personally evaluate the President.

In July 2011, the Department was rocked by the resignation of Ray Jefferson, Assistant Secretary for VETS, in a contracting scandal.

* Ray Lyman Wilbur, physician for the president of the United States, president of Stanford University, United States Secretary of the Interior

Twenty years earlier Ely had been executive assistant to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur during the Hoover administration, and by 1950 headed a prominent law firm specializing in natural resources issues.

On June 15, 2009, U. S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus toured BIW's shipbuilding facilities.

## Secretary of Transportation ( Ray LaHood )

## Secretary of the Navy ( Ray Mabus )

Raymond Edwin " Ray " Mabus, Jr. ( born October 11, 1948 ) is the 75th United States Secretary of the Navy.

Notable members of the firm include partners John Doerr, Ray Lane, and Brook Byers, as well as high-profile individuals such as Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy ( who joined as partner in January 2005 ), former U. S. Secretary of State Colin Powell ( who joined in July 2005 in the newly-created position of " strategic limited partner "), Vinod Khosla and former U. S. Vice President Al Gore, who joined as partner in November 2007 as part of a collaboration between KPCB and Gore's firm Generation Investment Management ( GIM ) to promote green technology, business and policy solutions.

Shortly after the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, Costello was prominently mentioned as a possible cabinet choice for Secretary of Transportation ; the nomination eventually went to fellow Illinois Representative Ray LaHood.

Raymond H. " Ray " LaHood ( born December 6, 1945 ) is a Republican politician from Illinois who is currently the United States Secretary of Transportation, having served since 2009.

Punahou students appear across the political spectrum, from Ronald Reagan's " favorite economist " and former ENRON board member Wendy Lee Gramm (' 62 ); Ryan Henry (' 68 ) and Robert Silberman (' 75 ), Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Assistant Secretary of the Army, respectively, for George H. W. Bush ; to centrist Ray Schoenke (' 59 *), a former Democratic candidate for Maryland Governor who founded the American Hunters and Shooters Association ( an alternative to the National Rifle Association ); to Jerry Berman (' 58 ), chief counsel of the ACLU.

Ray Barracks is further known for being the first duty station of former US Secretary of State and retired four-star General, Colin Powell who was stationed there as a Second Lieutenant in 1958.

On December 9, 2010, U. S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that much of the $ 810 million that Wisconsin was supposed to get would be redistributed to other states, including California, Florida and Washington.

In June 2009, Armed Services Committee senators Joe Lieberman, Carl Levin ( chair ), and John McCain, listen to Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus deliver his opening remarks for the fiscal year 2010 budget request.

Ray Lyman Wilbur ( April 13, 1875 – June 26, 1949 ) was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.

" Doctor Ray Lyman Wilbur: Third President of Stanford & Secretary of the Interior.

In 1975, Dr. Ray was appointed and served as the first Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

His brother Ray Lyman Wilbur was United States Secretary of the Interior under Herbert Hoover and a president of Stanford University.

The Millennium Promise Alliance, Inc., or Millennium Promise, is a U. S .- based non-profit organization dedicated to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and founded in 2005 by renown international economist and Special Advisor on the MDGs to the UN Secretary General, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, and Wall Street leader and philanthropist, Ray Chambers.

On March 27, 2009, Mabus was nominated by President Obama as Secretary of the Department of the Navy.

He was informally sworn in on May 19, 2009, however it was not until an official ceremony at Washington Navy Yard on June 18, 2009 that Mabus was officially sworn in by the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

Secretary Mabus has a presence on Facebook and frequently comments about his daily activities.

Retirement ceremonies for the Karles were attended by United States Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who presented the couple with the Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award, the Navy's highest form of recognition to civilian employees.

In October 2009, the U. S. Secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus announced that he and the Chief of Naval Operations were moving aggressively to change the policy.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, however, reviewed the evidence and found it insufficient to warrant corrective action for even the lesser offenses.

* Ray Mabus, 75th United States Secretary of the Navy

) Mrs. Arthur Goldberg, wife of the Secretary of Labor, paints professionally and helps sponsor the Associated Artists' Gallery in the District of Columbia.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

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

In addition, the NTSB has assisted the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in its investigations of both the Challenger and the Columbia space shuttle disasters, assisted the Department of Justice during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack investigations, and assisted the U. S. military in its investigation of the aircraft that crashed in the former Yugoslavia that took the lives of more than 30 Americans, including Commerce Secretary Ron Brown.

While his government asserted that the title of America to the entire territory was unquestionable even though there was only one American resident north of the Columbia basin ( who was an ex-Briton ), Polk and Secretary of State James Buchanan made an offer of a boundary at 49 degrees with the line straight across Vancouver Island, with no commercial privilege to be granted to the British south of the line, with the exception of free ports on Vancouver Island.

Previously under the Independent Counsel Reauthorization Act of 1994, United States Attorney General Janet Reno had Donald C. Smaltz appointed Independent Counsel by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ( Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels Ethics in Government Act of 1978, As Amended, Division 94-2 ) on September 9, 1994, to " investigate to the maximum extent authorized by law " whether the US Department of Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy " committed a violation of any federal criminal law.

** Governor DeWitt Clinton 1769-1828-son of James, Kingston Academy 1782, Columbia College 1786, NY Bar 1789, Secretary to Governor 1789-1798, NY Assembly 1798, U. S. Senator 1802, resigned, 1803, mayor of New York City 1803, 1808 – 1809, 1811 – 1815 ; NYS Senate 1799 – 1802, 1806 – 1811, Canal Commissioner 1816 – 1822, Governor 1817, 1820, 1824, 1826, Dewitt is best known for the Erie Canal and the NY State Canal System.

After the Civil War, Chipman was appointed Secretary of the District of Columbia by President Ulysses S. Grant, and was later elected to Congress as representative of the District of Columbia, serving two terms.

As War Secretary, he proposed a chain of posts extending from Council Bluffs, Iowa to the Columbia River.

At Columbia Fish became fluent in French, a language that would later help him as U. S. Secretary of State.

* British Columbia: Deputy Minister to the Premier and Cabinet Secretary

* Curtis H. Barnette, Trustee ; former Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel ; former Fulbright Scholar ; B. A., West Virginia University ; J. D., Yale University ; admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia and before the U. S. Supreme Court and various federal courts ; appointed by President Ronald Reagan as a member of the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States in 1988 ; appointed by President George Bush to the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations in 1989 ; appointed by Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole as a member of the Coal Commission in 1990 ; President, Association of General Council ; Chairman, American Society of Corporate Secretaries ; Vice Chairman, Yale Law School Fund ; and Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee ; Chairman of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors and the WVU Board of Governors ; Vice Chairman, Foundation for a Drug Free Pennsylvania ; Vice Chairman, Pennsylvania Business Roundtable ; Director, American Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, International Iron and Steel Institute ; Director, WLVT-TV, Channel 39

* Survey of boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia: letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State, submitting an estimate of appropriation for survey of the boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia, R. Wike, US Dept.

Alumni in the government sector include U. S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris (' 83 ), New York State Senator Michael F. Nozzolio, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Harry T. Edwards (' 62 ), and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan B. Krueger (' 82 ).

At the invitation of Mr. Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ms de Lille was the only South African Member of Parliament who attended the United Nations Millennium Project hosted by the Earth Institute at Columbia University.

During the Civil War, however, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles named a young assistant U. S. Attorney in the District of Columbia named Nathaniel Wilson to present the government's case in complicated courts-martial.

In the 1990s, Brazile served as Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, where she helped guide the District's budget and local legislation on Capitol Hill.

Former law clerks also include Lani Guinier, first African-American woman to gain tenure at Harvard Law School ; Judge Eric L. Clay, who now serves with Judge Keith on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ; Ronald Machen, the current United States Attorney for the District of Columbia ; Constance L. Rice, prominent civil rights activist and co-founder of the Advancement Project ; Rashad Hussain, Deputy Associate Council to President Barack Obama, and the U. S. representative to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ; and Jocelyn F. Benson, an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School and the 2010 Democratic candidate for Michigan Secretary of State.