JAMES SCHLESINGER IS EIGHTY-THREE

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER

b. February 15, 1929

JAMES SCHLESINGER

as the first U.S. Secretary of Energy

under President Jimmy Carter

Published in the October 9, 1978, issue of Business Week (p. 91)

Schlesinger has also been Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Secretary of Defense under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (details here); currently, among other posts, he is Chairman of the Board of MITRE (details here). A more recent photograph is to be found here.

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER TURNS EIGHTY-ONE

JAMES SCHLESINGER

b. February 15, 1929

JAMES R. SCHLESINGER

BACK AT HARVARD

March 14, 2007

Harvard-trained economist turned national security specialist;

CIA Director; Secretary of Defense;

(first) Secretary of Energy

(under Nixon-Ford-Carter) --

wielding a slide rule when I first photographed him,

in Washington, D.C.