On this day in 1993, President Bill Clinton announced the resignation of former Rep. Les Aspin Jr. as defense secretary. The resignation came less than a year after the Senate confirmed Aspin in ...

Les Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat who spent 22 years in Congress, rising to chair the Armed Services Committee, and who left the House to become President Clinton's first defense secretary ...

Les Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat and former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee who gave up his congressional seat to become President Clinton's first secretary of defense, dies of a stroke.

Bush's Pentagon team advanced. Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Communit Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 – May 21, 1995) was a United States ...