QUESTIONS:
1. Donald Rumsfeld holds the records as youngest and oldest secretary of Defense. If he stays on the job until January of '08, he will also be the longest-serving Defense secretary. Who currently holds that record?
2. Who is the shortest-serving secretary of Defense?
3. Who is the only secretary of Defense to have won elective office after leaving the Cabinet position?
4. What secretary of Defense is reputed to have said: "What's good for General Motors is good for the U.S.A."?
5. What secretary of Defense was the model for a character in Al Capp's "L'il Abner" comic strip?
ANSWERS:
1. Robert MacNamara, secretary of Defense from 1961-68.
2. Elliot Richardson, secretary of Defense from December 1972 to April 1973.
3. Dick Cheney, secretary of Defense from 1989-93, who was elected Vice President in 2000.
4. Charles Wilson, secretary of Defense from 1953-57, who was formerly head of General Motors.
5. Wilson was model for the big businessman General Bullmoose, whose motto was "What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A."
