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Leslie Aspin Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician and economist who served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1993 and as the 18th United Sta
Official portrait, c. 1993–1994
Les Aspin in 1981
Les Aspin and President Clinton in at Admiral's Landing as they prepare to visit the USS Arizona Memorial (July 1993)
Aspin speaking aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt in 1993
The United States secretary of defense, secondarily titled the secretary of war, is the head of the United States Department of Defense, the executive department of the U.S. Armed Forces, and is a hig
Les Aspin
…Party politician and economist who served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1993 and as the 18th United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994. In Congress, Aspin had a reputation as an intellectual who took a middle-of-the-road position on…
Pete Hegseth Official Portrait
Donald Rumsfeld is sworn in as Secretary of Defense by Associate Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown watch at The Pentagon on 20 November 1975.
Department of Defense organizational chart (December 2013)
James Forrestal Sec Of Def