Mark Esper, U.S. Secretary of Defense, speaks during his swearing-in ceremony as U.S. President Donald Trump listens in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 23, 2019.
A 55-year-old West Point graduate, Esper WASHINGTON - Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper claims in a lawsuit against the Defense Department that material is being improperly withheld from his use as he seeks to publish an "unvarnished and candid memoir" of his time in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet.The lawsuit, which was filed Sunday in U.S.