By 1975, Cabinet officers like Donald Rumsfeld, the once-and-future Pentagon chief, were trudging hat in hand into O'Neill's office.
On his first visit as Pentagon chief, Hagel seems intent on burying the image that Republican critics painted of him.
Neither has any senator indicated concern about the problematic judgment or security risks that might be associated with such a Pentagon chief.
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Hagel's first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief has been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.
Just finishing his third month as Pentagon Chief, Hagel used the speech to introduce himself on a more personal level to the audience.
In a farewell ceremony on board his military plane, the Italian-American Pentagon chief was also given a cake topped with the word "Arrivederci!"
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When Pop brought Cap on board as FORBES publisher in 1989 (he later became chairman), the press queried the former Pentagon chief about those stinging editorials.
If confirmed, Hagel will succeed Leon Panetta as Pentagon chief.
Hagel, on his first visit to Israel as Pentagon chief, seemed intent on burying the image that Republican critics painted of him as insufficiently supportive of the Jewish state.
If he stays in his job through December - and most analysts think he will - he'll become the longest serving Pentagon chief in history, passing the Vietnam era's Robert McNamara.
Yet beyond these soundbites, little is still known about what the man who might be the next Pentagon chief really thinks about one of the most pressing strategic challenges confronting the United States.
Lawrence di Rita, the chief Pentagon spokesman, told the BBC it was still too early to draw conclusions from the first reports.
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George Casey, who would become Army chief of staff, the Pentagon said Friday.
On Tuesday, the congressmen grilled Major-General Antonio Taguba, the military's chief investigator into the affair, and Stephen Cambone, the Pentagon's undersecretary for intelligence.
Which gets us to the commander in chief, who directs the secretary of defense, who runs the Pentagon.
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, was also talking to the Egyptian army chief, Lieutenant General Sami Enan, who had been at the Pentagon only in late January for discussions about combined training.
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