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	Les Aspin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aspin was elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until his resignation January 20, 1993.
		Aspin served as an adviser to Clinton on defense matters during the 1992 presidential campaign.
		Aspin did not favor using ground forces to intervene in the civil war involving the Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, and Croats, but thought that using high technology weapons such as cruise missiles might be a feasible option.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Les_Aspin (2582 words)

	Les Aspin Center \| About Les Aspin
		Les Aspin was born in Milwaukee in 1938.
		Aspin was an assistant professor of economics at Marquette from 1969 to 1971 before beginning his political career.
		Upon his death in 1995, Marquette renamed the center in his honor, recognizing Les Aspin's contributions as a public servant, his intellectual acuity, and his commitment to educating leaders in government.
	www.marquette.edu /aspin/about/aspin (219 words)

	Aspin, Les - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		ASPIN, LES [Aspin, Les] (Leslie Aspin, Jr.), 1938-95, U.S. politician and government official, b.
		From 1993 to 1994 Aspin was Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton.
		He oversaw the easing of restrictions on homosexuals in the military (see gay-rights movement) and expanded the role of women in the armed forces, but ill health and criticism of his management of the Defense Dept. led him to resign.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-aspinl1.html (263 words)

	Roots of Failure
		Aspin's fall has been attributed, variously, to his professorial demeanor, failure to establish good working relationships, health, fatigue, lack of administrative ability, indecisiveness, undercutting the White House staff on the homosexual issue, and failure to clamp down on the armed forces.
		Aspin was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, he published a series of "Options" papers describing alternatives to the Bush Administration's defense program.
		Aspin was not, as many have depicted him, an innocent victim, caught in the middle.
	www.afa.org /magazine/feb1994/0294edit.asp (812 words)

	SecDef Histories - Les Aspin
		Aspin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 21 July 1938 and attended public schools there.
		Aspin began his career in Congress as an outsider but soon developed a special interest and expertise in defense matters.
		Furthermore, Aspin was on record as favoring the use of U.S. troops in regional conflicts, as opposed to other decisionmakers, including General Powell, chairman of the JCS.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/aspin.htm (2415 words)

	REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR LES ASPIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the front, there was a picture of a beach; on the back he had scribbled, "Why are you wasting time reading postcards?" Those of us who had the privilege of being close to Les Aspin know that he was not only exceptionally brilliant, he was iconoclastic in the best sense.
		Les Aspin did a lot of different things in a lot of different ways.
		By that standard, Les Aspin was a true and remarkable patriot who made a dramatic positive difference to the United States and all the people who live there.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1995/950613aspin.htm (941 words)

	Aspin's "Star Wars" Deception
		Aspin also announced that the director of the BMDO will report to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, John Deutch.
		Aspin implied that it will help move strategic defense programs out of the laboratory and toward procurement and deployment of specific systems, effectively validating Reagan's goals.
		Aspin wants to deploy theater defenses first, national defenses second, and space- based defenses last (Reagan emphasized national, space-based defenses first).
	www.heritage.org /Research/MissileDefense/EM356.cfm (1215 words)

	Aspin to Speak June 1 - MIT News Office
		US Representative Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a key member of Congress in the shaping of national policy on defense, will be the commencement speaker at MIT on June 1.
		Aspin was born July 21, 1938, in Milwaukee.
		Aspin was elected to Congress from the First Congressional District in southeastern Wisconsin in 1970 and has served on the Armed Services Committee since 1971, becoming chairman in 1985 when he was chosen for the post over six more senior House members.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/1992/aspin-0401.html (357 words)

	les - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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		Aspin, Les(lie, Jr.) (1938-1995), American politician, United States secretary of defense in 1993 under President Bill Clinton.
	encarta.msn.com /les.html (97 words)

	Statement by Senator Herb Kohl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Les represented the 1st Congressional District for 22 years and he cared deeply about the people of his district.
		Les became intimately involved when the Janesville Postal Office was moved from downtown, working to ensure that service was retained for all, especially small businesses and other postal patrons who relied on the downtown post office.
		Thus, naming the Janesville Post Office after Les Aspin is a most fitting tribute to his many years of service to the people of the First Congressional District.
	www.senate.gov /~kohl/aspin.html (413 words)

	The Les Aspin Fun Pages
		Les Aspin received a PhD from MIT in 1966.
		Aspin to his Cabinet as Secretary of Defense.
		With each successive little boy, the collective IQ is again halved, until you get "the destructive force of a tank combined with the intellectual reasoning of a Labrador Retriever." It's probably the same with politicians, except their intelligence falls off 10 times as fast.
	web.mit.edu /voodoo/www/is743/les.html (731 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: Rumsfeld and the Aspin Test
		But it was Aspin who came under withering assault for the disasterous Black Hawk Down episode in Mogadishu, Somalia in October 1993 that left 18 Rangers dead and 84 wounded.
		That September, Aspin turned down General Thomas Montgomery's request for armored reinforcements to protect U.S. troops from growing attacks by the forces of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid.
		Aspin's refusal to provide the armor led to an all-out GOP assault.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/000058.htm (661 words)

	Les Aspin PhD '66 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Former defense secretary Les P. Aspin PhD '66 died of a stroke on May 21.
		Aspin delivered the commencement keynote address in 1992, in which he talked about the myriad changes that faced the first class to graduate in the post-Soviet era.
		A long-time Wisconsin representative, Aspin resigned his post as defense secretary last year in controversy over his handling of an incident involving USpeacekeeping in Somalia.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N0/aspin.100n.html (127 words)

	TIME.com: American Notes CONGRESS -- Jan. 19, 1987 -- Page 1
		Although Aspin is considered one of the Democrats' most astute spokesmen on defense policy, he could not straddle issues enough to satisfy the diverse liberal and conservative factions he had courted in his bid for leadership.
		More important, many colleagues had scores to settle for the way Aspin had reneged on commitments: some 50 Democrats who had promised their support turned against him when the secret vote in the caucus began.
		Aspin could regain his position next week when the caucus considers new nominees.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,963247,00.html (379 words)

	Les Aspin - SourceWatch
		Leslie "Les" Aspin served as Secretary of Defense during the Bill Clinton/Clinton administration.
		Before assuming office, Aspin "had represented Wisconsin's First Congressional District in the House of Representatives since 1971.
		As an officer in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1968, he served as a systems analyst in the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Robert Strange McNamara.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Les_Aspin (248 words)

	STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT ON DEATH OF LES ASPIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 21, 1995 STATEMENT OF THE PRESIDENT ON DEATH OF LES ASPIN I speak for millions of Americans when mourning the death today of Les Aspin, and join many others in saying that he was my friend.
		Les Aspin accomplished greatly because he cared greatly.
		He brought the same commitment to his most recent assignment that he brought to Washington as a young Congressional aide, staff assistant at the Council of Economic Advisors and Defense Department official in the 1960s.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/1995/950521aspin.htm (219 words)

	Les Aspin — Infoplease.com
		Leslie ASPIN - ASPIN, Leslie (1938—1995) ASPIN, Leslie, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Milwaukee,...
		Caught in the crossfire: Les Aspin is learning that the middle ground is often vulnerable.
		Pentagon culture clash: behind the civilian-military tug of war, issues of readiness and strategy.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0805045.html (241 words)

	Leslie ASPIN — Infoplease.com
		The Aspin Papers: Sanctions, Diplomacy, and War in the Persian Gulf.
		Aspin, Les, William Dickinson, Lee Aspin, and Bill Dickinson.
		Auster, Bruce B. “Caught in the Crossfire: Les Aspin is Learning that the Middle Ground is Often Vulnerable.” U.S. News & World Report (6 December 1993), 30(3).
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/aspin-leslie.html (426 words)

	Les Aspin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Report on 19 January 1995 remarks by Aspin to Standing Committee on Law and National Security.
		Aspin summarized the commission's mission as answering the question: "What happens to the Intelligence Community now that the Cold War is over and the Soviet Union has broken up?"
		Petersen identifies Aspin as "[a] leading Congressional critic." Clark comment: On the other hand, I never viewed Aspin as a critic of the CIA -- critical, certainly, at times; but not a critic per se.
	intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/A_folder/aspin.html (181 words)

	Les Aspin Center \| About the Les Aspin Center
		Since 1984, the Les Aspin Center has educated more than 1600 students who have interned in nearly 100 congressional offices, the State Department, the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Secret Service, The White House, Department of Defense,The Federal Communications Commission, Wisconsin Office of Federal-State Relations, as well as offices for Wisconsin-based corporations.
		At any given time, there are approximately 50 Les Aspin Center alumni working as professional staff members in the U.S. Congress.
		International In the world arena, the Les Aspin Center for Government has trained and educated over 300 leaders from Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Mali, and Nigeria since 1995, including members of Parliament, cabinet officials, nongovernmental organization executives, and others.
	www.marquette.edu /aspin/about/index.shtml (364 words)

	CaseWeb: The Case Program Home Page
		A sequel briefly traces the fate of both the MX and Aspin's career in Congress following that vote.The case has several teaching objectives.
		Here one can examine critically the role of Aspin and others in transforming the MX issue in a way that enabled some of their colleagues to reverse earlier anti-MX votes.
		Les Aspin and the MX: Teaching Note (568.2) (Teaching Note)
	www.ksgcase.harvard.edu /casetitle.asp?caseNo=568.1 (283 words)

	Beyond 'bottom up.' - failure Secretary of Defense Les Aspin's "Bottom Up Review" on US military readiness National ...
		LES ASPIN, then Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, discomfited the Bush Administration in 1992 when he berated it for failing to come to terms with the end of the Cold War.
		Ironically, when Aspin recently issued a "Bottom Up Review" he attracted the same criticism, and with no less cause.
		This 17-page document (including pictures and graphics) projected a force of ten active and five reserve Army divisions, eleven active aircraft carriers and other warships, twenty active and reserve Air Force fighter wings, and a three-division Marine Corps.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n22_v45/ai_14667458 (915 words)

	TIME.com: Informed Sources -- Feb. 14, 1994 -- Page 1
		Washington -- Former Secretary of Defense LES ASPIN probably won't accept President Clinton's offer to be U.S. Ambassador to China.
		Aspin wants to remain active in the Washington scene, and he's mulling over another job Clinton has proposed to him: head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.
		What would please Aspin most, though, is a job in academia, preferably as a university president.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,980111,00.html (404 words)

	AllRefer.com - Les Aspin (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Les Aspin (Leslie Aspin, Jr.), 1938–95, U.S. politician and government official, b.
		In 1985 he became chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and in that position supported many aspects of President Ronald Reagan's military buildup.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Les Aspin
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AspinL.html (233 words)

	PERRspectives Blog: General Agreement: Rumsfeld Fails the Aspin Test
		As I wrote back in December 2004, the Republican Party and its amen corner have decided that its 1993 "Les Aspin Standard" does not apply to Defense Secretary Rumseld and the Bush administration.
		Aspin was a hesitant, weak-kneed bureaucrat who refused to supply our troops in Somalia.
		Rumsfeld is a assertive, stubborn wrong-headed civilian who refuses to face the military reality that was predicted by experts prior to the invasion.
	www.perrspectives.com /blog/archives/000367.htm (944 words)

	Building Congress supports federal decision - New York Building Congress approves plan by Secretary of Defense Les ...
		The New York Building Congress has announced its "strong approval" of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin's decision this month to postpone and review an Army Corps of Engineers' plan of reorganization to close or shrink its offices in New York City and Buffalo.
		The Building Congress, Coletti pointed out, has been urging the Army Engineering Corps not to close its New York operations, and he commended the new Defense Secretary for his willingness to reexamine the reorganization plan.
		He urged Aspin to consider the plan in terms of its effect on the New York region and to determine whether closing the Corps' New York offices is necessary to achieve the reorganization's stated goal of cost-efficiency.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_n27_v39/ai_13476886 (750 words)

	Pentagon Wants Women In Combat
		Established by then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin on Jan. 13, 1994, the so-called “Aspin Rules” exempt female soldiers from assignments in smaller direct ground combat (DGC) units that engage in deliberate offensive action against the enemy, and from units that collocate with them.
		The Army submitted lists of positions to be opened or closed under the Aspin rules, and they were approved with a memo signed on July 28, 1994, by Aspin's successor, William J. Perry.
		Strategies tried so far have involved violation of current rules governing the assignment of female soldiers in land combat units, unilateral redefinition of those rules, or implementation of inefficient organizational plans that would sacrifice the advantages of self-contained, modular organizations in the Army's new combat brigades.
	www.infowars.com /articles/military/women_in_combat.htm (2396 words)

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