On his website, he claims to have resigned over an issue related to reduced funding for the Navy.
When he resigned, I was on active duty at the time and I regretted his resignation. As I recall, the issue was backtracking from a previously stated goal of maintaining a 600 ship Navy.
143 posted on 10/27/2006 7:59:45 AM PDT by Polybius
In 1987 he became the first Naval Academy graduate in history to serve in the military and later be appointed Secretary of the Navy. He resigned as Naval Secretary in 1988 after refusing to agree to a reduction of the Navy's force structure during congressionally-mandated budget cutting.
From his website.
146 posted on 10/27/2006 8:04:02 AM PDT by johniegrad