QUESTIONS:
1. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has been in the news lately, served as a Republican member of the U. S. House from Illinois from 1962-69. Who now has the seat in Congress formerly held by Rumsfeld?
2. Before Rumsfeld, who was the last secretary of defense to have served in the U.S. House?
3. Since the office was created in 1947, who has been the youngest secretary of defense?
4. Who has been the oldest person to hold the position of secretary of defense?
5. When Rumsfeld was first appointed secretary of defense by President Gerald Ford, he was named to replace a secretary whom Ford had fired. Can you name him?
ANSWERS:
1. Republican Phil Crane, who won a special election when Rumsfeld resigned to enter the Nixon Administration in 1969.
2. The late Les Aspin, Democratic House member from Wisconsin from 1970-93 and secretary of defense from 1993-94.
3. Rumsfeld, who was named to the post at age 43 by President Ford in 1975.
4. Rumsfeld, who is now 72.
5. James R. Schlesinger.
