What is Richard Armitage (government official)?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Richard Armitage |image = Funeral Service for Colin Powell 211105-A-VS818-282 (cropped).jpg |office = [[United States Deputy Secretary of State]] |president = [[George W. Bush]] |term_start = March 26, 2001 |term_end = February 23, 2005 |predecessor = [[Strobe Talbott]] |successor = [[Robert Zoellick]] |office1 = [[Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs]] |president1 = [[Ronald Reagan]]<br>[[George H. W. Bush]] |term_start1 = April 2, 1983 |term_end1 = June 5, 1989<br>Acting: April 2, 1983 – June 5, 1983 |predecessor1 = [[Bing West]] |successor1 = [[Henry Rowen|Harry Rowen]] |birth_name = Richard Lee Armitage |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|4|26}} |birth_place = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] |spouse = Laura Alice Samford |children = 8 |alma_mater = {{nowrap|[[United States Naval Academy]]}} ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]]) |relatives = [[Iain Armitage]] (grandson) |allegiance=[[United States of America]] |branch={{flag|United States Navy|23px}} |serviceyears = 1967-1973 |rank = [[Lieutenant]] |battles=[[Vietnam War]] }} '''Richard Lee Armitage''' (born April 26, 1945) is an American [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] politician. He worked as an aide to [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[Bob Dole]].<ref name=Remarks>[https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/d/former/armitage/remarks/21647.htm Remarks to the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations: Richard L. Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, Marc Susser, Historian of the State Department], Washington, DC, June 5, 2003.</ref> Armitage was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs (1981&ndash;1983) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1983&ndash;1989) during the [[Ronald Reagan]] presidency. He was [[United States Deputy Secretary of State|Dep