US Defense Department
On January 26, 1989, President George H. W. Bush named Atwood to the No. 2 job in the US Defense Department. Atwood's management and scientific skills were thought to be a complement to those of the Defense Secretary appointed, John G. Tower, who was expected to play a political and policy-setting role. Atwood served in this post for the four years with Dick Cheney as Defense Secretary. He returned to private life in the spring of 1993.
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