Statistics for U.S. Secretaries of Defense

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Years in Office	Answer	President	% Correct
1989-1993	Dick Cheney	George H. W. Bush	67%
2001-2006	Donald Rumsfeld	George W. Bush	67%
1975-1977	Donald Rumsfeld	Gerald Ford	67%
1950-1951	George C. Marshall	Harry S. Truman	63%
2017-2018	Jim Mattis	Donald Trump	63%
1961-1968	Robert McNamara	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson	63%
2006-2011	Robert Gates	George W. Bush, Barack Obama	58%
1959-1961	Thomas S. Gates Jr.	Dwight D. Eisenhower	58%
2011-2013	Leon Panetta	Barack Obama	46%
2015-2017	Ash Carter	Barack Obama	42%
1981-1987	Caspar Weinberger	Ronald Reagan	42%
1977-1981	Harold Brown	Jimmy Carter	42%
2013-2015	Chuck Hagel	Barack Obama	38%
1993-1994	Leslie Aspin	Bill Clinton	38%
1994-1997	William Perry	Bill Clinton	38%
2019-	Mark Esper	Donald Trump	33%
1949-1950	Louis A. Johnson	Harry S. Truman	29%
1997-2001	William Cohen	Bill Clinton	29%
1947-1949	James Forrestal	Harry S. Truman	25%
1969-1973	Melvin R. Laird	Richard Nixon	25%
1968-1969	Clark Clifford	Lyndon B. Johnson	21%
1973	Elliot Richardson	Richard Nixon	21%
1987-1989	Frank Carlucci	Ronald Reagan	21%
1973-1975	James R. Schlesinger	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford	17%
1957-1959	Neil H. McElroy	Dwight D. Eisenhower	13%
1953-1957	Charles Erwin Wilson	Dwight D. Eisenhower	8%
1951-1953	Robert A. Lovett	Harry S. Truman	8%