After all, we had Presidents who were lawyers, senators, governors, army generals, secretariesof commerce, even a secretary ofwar, among other occupations.
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Secretariesof Defense are supposed to be cheerleaders for war, promoting promiscuous global intervention, demanding increased Pentagon outlays, and supporting perpetual military commitments.
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By Harold Wilson's time in the 60s, even despite the Vietnam War, friends of the special relationship were fortunate: Wilson's Foreign Secretaries for most of his tenure were Labour conservatives George Brown and Michael Stewart, whose pro-American sympathies were accepted by an emollient "beer and sandwiches" Premier anxious to maintain peace in a fractious government.