11.   Another member of the Defense Policy Board and a former defense secretary and CIA chief, James R. Schlesinger, is more circumspect.

12.   As a longtime handler of political frontmen the former defense secretary is even-toned, discreet, self-effacing.

13.   As defense secretary, he introduced the legislation and helped push it through.

14.   As defense secretary he hung tenaciously to the old canard that service by homosexuals is incompatible with necessary military standards.

15.   As deputy defense secretary, he already has considerable experience in overseeing intelligence work in the Pentagon.

16.   As deputy defense secretary, his job before becoming intelligence chief, Deutch was one of many Pentagon officials who did a poor job supervising the NRO.

17.   At first, they tried direct appeals to General Enrique Cervantes, the Mexican defense secretary.

18.   At his Senate confirmation hearings to be Bush defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld talked about the lessons of Vietnam.

19.   Before leaving office, Bush pardoned former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and others indicted by the Iran-Contra prosecutor.

20.   Bill Perry was effective as defense secretary.