President Bush doubled down on his support of Tower ... Had he been confirmed as defense secretary, Tower probably would have dampened all these impulses. A Reagan Appointee Just Showed How ...

Texas Republican Sen. John Tower, President-elect George H.W. Bush’s choice for Defense secretary, was voted down in 1989 after contentious confirmation hearings looking into allegations of ...

As Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth is grilled ... Once under President Ford, the second time under President George W. Bush. In light of the attacks on Hegseth, it is worth a look ...

Bush. The lead ship ... over this ship and those who sail aboard her,” Bush said in the release. Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III commended the recent carrier naming, stating the ...

The new cadre of national security officials is highly confident, highly online and scornful of Washington’s foreign policy ...

Eisenhower, USS Harry S. Truman, USS Ronald Reagan, USS George W. Bush, and USS Gerald R. Ford. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that the future carriers Clinton and Bush will "serve as ...

Mullin did not dispute the women and whiskey facts that until now would have torpedoed a defense secretary nominee, as it did George H.W. Bush’s nomination of former Texas Sen. John Tower in 1989.

The world’s richest man, Musk contributed $277 million to back Trump and other Republicans last year, making him the single ...

In 1989, when John Tower was George H. W. Bush's nominee for defense secretary, the oath was not administered. Tower, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was not confirmed.

The secretary of homeland security is the newest ... 11, 2001, then-President George W. Bush and other leaders realized that a potential contributing reason for the 9/11 tragedy was lack of ...