Talk:Harold Brown (Secretary of Defense)

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Damn, you mofos sure went to town on that. Good work, homes. orthogonal 05:45, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Here's a red flag. In the introduction to this article, it says Brown was Deputy Secretary of Defense, presumably under Johnson(?), but nothing is said about that post in the body of his biography. If you click on Deputy Secretary of Defense and go to the article on that jab, Brown is not listed as having been one. There is either an error in this article or in the Deputy Secretary article. Milesnfowler (talk) 12:13, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

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comment at article end
is "he is glad to have met you..." appropriate in this article?

Mistake in wording?
'While Secretary of Defense, he insisted in'' laying the groundwork for the Camp David accords. '''

Does this mean he insisted on laying the groundwork, or that he assisted in laying the groundwork? KConWiki (talk) 05:55, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Director
This article should mention that Harold Brown is or was a director of Altria, a company selling poisonous products to consumers 119.11.11.4 (talk) 03:08, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Director
This article should mention that Harold Brown is or was a director of Altria, a company selling poisonous products to consumers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.11.11.4 (talk) 03:26, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

External link?
Would an interview with transcript with Harold Brown from 1986 be useful here as an external link? Focus of conversation is nuclear weapons policy. http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_CF179614E1CD43A292F04877A2DC1189 and http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7C627EF675ED4300AD2DA8A705BE1F42 (I have a conflict of interest; otherwise I would add it myself.) Mccallucc (talk) 17:51, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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Verbatim copy from history.defense.gov source
It appears that the entire section on his term as defense secretary was a carbon copy of the defense.gov biography. It's a government website, so (as specified here) this isn't a copyvio. But it's certainly not ideal. In my edit I've kept it as-is but added more citations among the recent obituaries; perhaps someone with more knowledge on this subject can decide which parts are important and how to rephrase them. Davey2116 (talk) 21:25, 10 January 2019 (UTC)