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 ...

On this day in 1995, Les Aspin, a former House Democrat from Wisconsin and President Clinton's first secretary of defense -- who was forced to resign within a year of taking the Cabinet post ...

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 ...