Donald Rumsfeld - Donald Rumsfeld Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) became the 21st Secretary of Defense of the United States in 2001. Before that, he had a long career in private industry and public service. Having served under President Gerald Ford, he is both the youngest and oldest Secretary of Defense. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended Princeton University on scholarship (AB, 1954) and served in the United States Navy (1954-57) as a Naval aviator. He went to Washington, DC, in 1957, during the Eisenhower Administration, to serve as Administrative Assistant to a Congressman. After a stint with an investment banking firm, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois in 1962, at the age of 30, and was re-elected in 1964, 1966, and.
January 2002 - legislation Organizations, governmental and professional: Air Transport Association - American Automobile Association - House of Lords - United States Department of Transportation People: Yasser Arafat - Caroline Dickinson - Saddam Hussein - Shimon Peres - Colin Powell - Condoleezza Rice - Nabil Shaath - Ariel Sharon Religion: Islam - Judaism Concepts: Military and defense: biological weapons program - sniffer dogs - weapons of mass destruction - x-ray searching Other: airline baggage - bounty - bounty hunter - sniffer dog - x-ray searching Background for events in January 2002 The War in Afghanistan: Background Developing stories: 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan - individual cases of anthrax Ethnicity: People of Afghanistan - Azerbaijan - Pashtun - Tajik Geography: Afghanistan - Baghlan, Afghanistan - Israel - Kabul - Kandahar - Kunduz, Afghanistan - New.
Jay Garner - Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative missile shield program), and concluded his Army career as Assistant Vice Chief of Staff, retiring in 1997 at the rank of Lieutenant General. After leaving the Army, Garner became president of SYColeman, a defense contractor which designs missile communications and targeting systems used in the Patriot and Arrow missile systems. (He has been on unpaid leave from the company since January 2003.) Garner served on a presidential panel, chaired by Donald Rumsfeld, which specializes in space and missile threats. He has also worked closely with the Israel Defence Forces. In 2003 it was announced that Garner had been selected to lead the post-war reconstruction efforts in Iraq, a natural choice given his earlier similar role in the north. However his ties to the arms trade via SYColeman.
June 2003 - all control towers in the United States to watch for any unscheduled aircraft as a consequence. June 17, 2003 United States troops shoot dead two former Iraqi soldiers who were protesting that they had not been paid since their country was occupied. Following an international outrcy, the Romanian government retracts an official statement that no holocaust occurred on its territory during the Second World War. Linus Torvalds announces that he will take a leave of absence from his job at Transmeta to work full-time at OSDL on the Linux kernel. Same-sex marriage in Canada: The Canadian government announces that it will not appeal the Ontario appeals court ruling that permitted same-sex marriage. Instead, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien indicates that his government will introduce legislation to change the definition of marriage but.
Iraq disarmament crisis timeline 2001-2003 - 2 proposal as the "wrong work program", but recommends that Iraq allow the return of weapons inspectors in accordance with UNSC resolution 1284, passed in 1999. September 12, 2002 US President George W. Bush, addressing the UN General Assembly, challenges the UN to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Iraq or stand aside as the United States and likeminded nations act. The UN Security Council begins discussion on drafting a new resolution to encourage Iraq to comply with the previous 16 UN resolutions. September 26, 2002 Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld accused Iraq of harboring al Qaeda terrorists and aiding their quest for weapons of mass destruction. October 3, 2002 US Evangelical Christian leaders led by Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention send a letter to President Bush outlining.
Hoover Institution - former United States National Security Advisor Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Dinesh D'Souza, author Edwin Meese, former United States Attorney General Condoleezza Rice, United States National Security Advisor Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense George P. Schultz, former United States Secretary of State References The official website Disinfopedia article "California think tank acts as Bush 'brain trust' / Texas governor culls advice from members of Hoover Institution in his presidential bid" by Paul Van Slambrouck, Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor, July 2, 1999. Emily Biuso, Stanford U. and the Bush Administration, The Nation, March 28, 2003..
United States armed forces - effort, integrated planning, shared procurement, and a reduction or elimination in inter-service rivalry between commanders. This addressed a major conflict with Military Science, the rule of unity of command. Individual services changed from war fighting entities into organizational and training units, responsible for readiness. Thus CENTCOM (Central Command) for example, would be assigned air, ground, and naval assets in order to achieve its objective, not the inefficient method of individual services planning, supporting, and fighting the same war. Shared procurement caused the most notable change in the peacetime military. This allowed technological advances to be quickly suffused throughout the military, and provided other ancillary benefits (such as the interoperability of radios between services, heretofore unknown in the military). Additionally, major technological advances, such as stealth and smart weapons were shared between.
United States Coast Guard - the Lifesaving Service and the Steamship Inspection Bureau were merged in 1915 to form the Coast Guard. The Lighthouse Service was merged into the Coast Guard in 1939. In the 1920s, the Coast Guard was given several former U.S. Navy four-stack destroyers to help enforce Prohibition. The effort was not entirely successful, due to the slowness of the destroyers. World War II Before the American entry World War II, cutters of the Coast Guard patrolled the North Atlantic. One, the USCGC Modoc, was peripherally involved in the chase and sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. During the war, Coast Guard units sank 13 German and two Japanese submarines and captured two German surface vessels. In addition, many of the coxswains of American landing craft used in amphibious invasions were Coast Guardsmen..
United States Department of Defense - 18, 1947 Renamed: August 10, 1949 Secretary: Donald Rumsfeld Deputy Secretary: Paul Wolfowitz Budget: $358.2 billion (2003) Employees: 636,000 civilian 2.3 million military (2003) The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is the civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government which controls the military of the United States. It is headquartered at The Pentagon and headed by the United States Secretary of Defense. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Operating units 3 Technology 4 Related legislation 5.
United States Secretary of Defense - October 9, 1957 - December 1, 1959 Dwight D. Eisenhower Thomas S. Gates December 2, 1959 - January 20, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Robert McNamara January 21, 1961 - February 29, 1968 John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson Clark Clifford March 1, 1968- January 20, 1969 Lyndon Johnson Melvin Laird January 22, 1969 - January 29, 1973 Richard Nixon Elliot L. Richardson January 30, 1973 - May 24, 1973 Richard Nixon James R. Schlesinger July 2, 1973 - November 19, 1975 Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford Donald H. Rumsfeld (1st time) November 20, 1975 - January 20, 1977 Gerald Ford Harold Brown January 21, 1977 - January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter Caspar W. Weinberger January 21, 1981 - November 23, 1987 Ronald Reagan Frank C. Carlucci November 23, 1987 - January 20, 1989.
UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - that date. On the 17th, speeches by Bush and UK foreign secretary Jack Straw explicitly declared the period of diplomacy to be over, and that no further authorization from the UN would be sought before an invasion of Iraq (see 2003 invasion of Iraq). More information is found in United Nations actions regarding Iraq. Passage of Resolution On September 12, 2002, Bush, speaking before the General Assembly of the United Nations outlined the complaints of the United States against the Iraqi government, detailing Iraq's alleged noncompliance to the terms of 16 resolutions of the Security Council since the Gulf War in 1990. Specific areas of noncompliance alleged in this speech include: "In violation of Security Council Resolution 1373, Iraq continues to shelter and support terrorist organization that direct violence against Iran,.
February 2003 - been without a President after three attempts at choosing a replacement for former President Vaclav Havel. The United States 9th Circuit Court, based in San Francisco, California, reaffirmed its ruling that the words "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance are unconstitutional. It is expected that the Bush administration will appeal to the Supreme Court. The United States government backtracked on its pledge to send American combat troops to the Philippines in order to track down Islamic terrorists in that nation. Philippine opponents of the plan threatened to impeach President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, if she had allowed foreign troops on Philippine soil in contradiction to the Philippine constitution. February 27, 2003 Ariel Sharon presents the new politcally right-wing Israeli government. Part of his coalition are Sharon's Likud bloc, the National Religious Party,.
United States order of precedence - of foreign states Widows of former Presidents of the United States (Lady Bird Johnson) Ministers of foreign powers Associate Justices of the Supreme Court: John Paul Stevens Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia Anthony Kennedy Clarence Thomas David Souter Ruth Bader Ginsburg Stephen Breyer Retired Chief Justices (None living) Retired Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Members of the United States Cabinet: Secretary of the Treasury (John W. Snow) Secretary of Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) Attorney General (John Ashcroft) Secretary of the Interior (Gale Norton) Secretary of Agriculture (Ann M. Veneman) Secretary of Commerce (Donald Evans) Secretary of Labor (Elaine Chao) Secretary of Health and Human Services (Tommy Thompson) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (VACANT) Secretary of Transportation (Norman Mineta) Secretary of Energy (Spencer Abraham) Secretary of Education (Roderick Paige) Secretary of.
Foot in Mouth award - British Plain English Campaign. Winners include 2003 - United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for saying at a press conference: "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.".
US governmental response to the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks - that would trim civil liberties in the United States, to make it easier for the government to spy on what's happening within the country. USA PATRIOT Act passed. On October 10, the FBI released its "FBI Most Wanted Terrorists" list. September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack - Full Timeline - Background history Casualties - Missing Persons - Survivors - Personal experiences - Donations Closings and Cancellations - Memorials and Services - US Governmental Response Responsibility - Hijackers - Airport security See also: World Trade Center -- The Pentagon -- New York City -- Washington, D.C -- AA Flight 11 -- UA Flight 75 -- AA Flight 77 -- UA Flight 93 -- U.S. Department of Defense -- Operation Bojinka -- terrorism -- domestic terrorism -- Osama Bin Laden -- Taliban -- Afghanistan.
Dick Cheney - highschool sweetheart Lynne Cheney, an author and college teacher. They have grown daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, and three granddaughters. He began serving the Nixon administration in 1969, serving in a number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, at the Office of Economic Opportunity (as a special assistant to Donald Rumsfeld), and within the White House. Under President Gerald Ford, Cheney became Assistant to the President and White House Chief of Staff. In 1977 he was elected to represent Wyoming in the United States House of Representatives, and was re-elected five times. He was Chairman of the Republican Policy Committee from 1981 to 1987. He was elected Chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1987 and elected House Minority Whip in 1988. Cheney served as the United States Secretary of.
December 2003 - a surprise visit to Spanish troops in Iraq. [1] Massive landslides in The Philippines caused by heavy rain result in the deaths of up to 90 people. [1] A Malaysian opposition website is shut down by its British web-hosting company amid claims of "political censorship" from the opposition. [1] Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai tells his supporters to "fight fear" as they campaign against President Robert Mugabe. His comments follow the decision of Zimbabwe's police to occupy the offices of Zimbabwe's only privately owned newspaper in defiance of a court order that the newspaper could resume publication. [1] Eleven people, mainly young people from Germany, die in a bus crash in Belgium. [1] In Comoros, leaders signed an agreement clearing the way for legislative elections in April. [1] December 19, 2003.
1996 - May 23 - Swede Göran Kropp reaches Mount Everest summit alone without oxygen after having bicycled there from Sweden. May 27 - First Chechnya War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire in the war. May-June - Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM supervises the destruction of Al-Hakam, Iraq's main production facility of biological warfare agents. June - Iraq disarmament crisis: As Iraq continues to refuse inspectors access to a number of sites, the U.S. fails in its attempt to build support for military action against Iraq in the UN Security Council. June 6 - The sons of Darlie Routier, Damon and Devon are stabbed to death in their Rowlett, Texas home. Their mother would later be convicted of the murder. June 15- A.
1932 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York July 30 - August 14 - 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles 1932 in television July 22 - First BBC TV-broadcasts August 15 - CBS begins The Wide World Review November 8 - For the first time, a television network (CBS) reports on the presidential election, with commentary, vote tallys, and still cartoons of the politicians RCA demonstrates an electronic television system June 18 Fédération Internationale de Basketball founded Births January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor January 4 - Carlos Saura, director January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian semiotic scholar and author January 5 - Raisa Gorbachev, Soviet political consort, (d. 1999) January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985) January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, US author January 22 - Piper.
2003 occupation of Iraq timeline - 2003 "We will leave Iraq completely in the hands of Iraqis as quickly as possible." Condoleezza Rice Press Briefing QUESTION: "Mr. Secretary, could you give us an idea of your views of the interim administration (of Iraq), how quickly it might be set up..?" SECRETARY POWELL: "We are anxious to move quickly now that the day of liberation is drawing near. I don't know when it will happen. But, certainly, we can see what's going to happen in the not-too-distant future, we hope." Colin Powell Press Conference April 10, 2003 "We want to see a situation where power and responsibility is transferred as quickly as possible to the Iraqis themselves, with as much international assistance as possible ... We have no desire to occupy Iraq..." Paul Wolfowitz Testimony before the Senate.
