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The longest-serving secretary of defense is Robert McNamara, who served for a total of 7 years, 39 days. Combining his two non-sequential services as the secretary of defense, the second-longest serving is Donald Rumsfeld, who served just ten days fewer than McNamara.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Ford share a laugh in a Cabinet meeting, 1975. Rumsfeld with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on January 15, 1976. During his tenure as Secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld oversaw the transition to an all-volunteer military.
Secretary of War May 22, 1911 March 4, 1913 10 years, 342 days William Howard Taft: July 10, 1940: September 21, 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman: Secretary of State March 28, 1929 March 4, 1933 Herbert Hoover: George Shultz [13] Secretary of Labor January 22, 1969 July 1, 1970 9 years, 318 days Richard Nixon Secretary of the ...
Like former defense secretary James Mattis, [59] Austin required a congressional waiver of the National Security Act of 1947 to bypass the ten-year waiting period after leaving active-duty military, as prescribed by 10 U.S.C. § 113 (a), in order to be appointed as secretary of defense. [58]
See United States Secretary of Defense for a description of the office and a chronological list of the secretaries. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Secretaries of Defense of the United States .
What is the secretary of defense’s role in the chain of command? ... a sprawling bureaucracy consisting of 3.4 million people across 160 countries and spending over $800 billion a year. His ...
Pete Hegseth’s nomination for Defense Secretary raised eyebrows in Washington, though he has held on thus far ahead of his being sworn in as head of the Pentagon on January 15. ... The 44-year ...
Robert Strange McNamara (/ ˈ m æ k n ə m ær ə /; June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War.