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US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced the Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson.
Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., will join host Scott Simon today on NPR's "Weekend Edition" to discuss the five-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. Webb, a former secretary of the Navy, has contended ...
Here’s hoping the ghost of James Webb still haunts the Naval Academy. It’s an honest ghost capable of scaring off the likes of Pete Hegseth.
As many Democrats cope with their shock and dismay at Donald Trump’s victory, former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia on Tuesday saluted the president-elect, railed against elitism and accused ...
When Webb left his position as Secretary of the Navy. 1979: The publication of his article “Women Can’t Fight” by The Washingtonian, in which he said, “No benefit to anyone can come from ...
Tom Cruise turned up early on Tuesday morning at the Longcross Film Studios in Chertsey, Surrey where the United-States Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro presented him with the Distinguished ...
Now, as then, the country is headed into the fifth year of a historically divisive presidency. And if a second blue wave seems impossible, consider: Nobody knew who Jim Webb was at this time in 2004.
Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan, Webb, 72, won an upset victory as a Democrat over Sen. George Allen, R-Va., in 2006. After declining to seek re-election, Webb briefly ran for ...
NASA launched the $10 billion Webb telescope on Dec. 25, 2021, sending the telescope on a 930,000-mile (1.5 million kilometer) journey to its final position in the sky. The telescope is composed ...
In the 1980s, Jim Webb joined the Republican Party and served in the administration of President Ronald Regan as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs and later as Secretary of the Navy.
Sean O’Keefe, a former secretary of the navy and NASA administrator from 2001 to 2004, decided that Webb’s contributions should be honored by having his name on what was originally called the ...
NASA's new telescope bears the name of James Webb (center), an influential figure who was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to lead the space agency during the '60s.