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James Stockdale. James Bond Jim Stockdale (December 23, 1923 â July 5, 2005) was a United States Navy vice admiral and aviator awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War, during which he was an American prisoner of war for over seven years. Commander Stockdale was the senior naval officer held captive in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
Dirk Kempthorne is the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, a former governor of Idaho, is the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior. President George W. Bush originally nominated Kempthorne on March 16, 2006. Bush, selecting a pro-development Western Republican to push for more oil and gas drilling , urged the Senate to move quickly on his nomination.