Richard Armitage (government official)

Richard Lee Armitage (April 26, 1945 – April 13, 2025) was an American Republican politician.

He worked as an aide to Senator Bob Dole.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.

Armitage was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs (1981–1983) and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (1983–1989) during the Ronald Reagan presidency. 

He was Deputy Secretary of State from March 2001 to February 2005 during the George W. Bush presidency.Richard Lee Armitage (1945–), Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State.

Armitage was known for his role in Plame affair. Armitage said in 2006 that he leaked Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a CIA officer to columnist Robert Novak, who revealed her identity in a July 2003 column.

Armitage died of a pulmonary embolism on April 13, 2025, at the age of 79, at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia.

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