31.   After a brief vacation, he will be briefing the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group to the defense secretary.

32.   After the crashes, William Cohen, then the defense secretary, appointed a panel of experts to review the Osprey program.

33.   After their trip through the steam tunnels, Frank said, he walked the defense secretary to his next appointment, the classroom of Prof. Henry A. Kissinger.

34.   Alec Baldwin is slightly less convincing as defense secretary Robert McNamara, possibly because he angles more toward the emotionless brainiac than the brilliant tactician.

35.   Bush is expected to announce his defense secretary this week and then fill out his economic team.

36.   Bush also suggested that most Americans already knew and respected Cheney as a result of his role as defense secretary during the Persian Gulf War.

37.   Bush and his defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, should resist pressure from the uniformed service chiefs and their congressional allies to buy unneeded weapon systems.

38.   Bush was coming to pay more attention to his budget director than to his defense secretary.

39.   Bush, has picked Dick Cheney, a former defense secretary and White House chief of staff who served under his father, to conduct his search.

40.   Bush was also asked whether he had any misgivings, based on health concerns, about selecting Cheney, a former defense secretary, as his running mate.