Living Former Secretaries of Defense
- 10th: Melvin Robert Laird
- 12th: James Rodney Schlesinger
- 13th and 21st: Donald Henry Rumsfeld
- 14th: Harold Brown
- 16th: Frank Charles Carlucci III
- 17th: Richard Bruce Cheney
- 19th: William James Perry
- 20th: William Sebastian Cohen
- 22nd: Robert Michael Gates
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