And Albright is surely the only secretary of state to have ever sewn her own clothes.
She is probably the only secretary in the country who doubles as a bestselling author.
Lord Robertson is the only secretary general in the alliance's 54-year history to have invoked its mutual defense clause, following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Only Secretary Powell, whose phraseology these days often seems a leading indicator of what the president will soon utter, used those words, in passing, on Friday.
Among the guests was Henry Kissinger, who had delivered the first fellowship lecture a year earlier, a considerable personality wryly described as the only Secretary of State under whom three American Presidents have served.
Cosima Sadd was not only secretary of the Greencastle society, but worked at a Louisville, Ky., hospital, ensuring that patients received goods sent from Indiana, including cash and boxes of fruit, cakes and eggs.
Penn, immensely proud of its long heritage, knows well that James Logan (1674-1751) was not only secretary to William Penn and an early trustee of the university, as your article reported.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, stopping here on his way to a meeting with President Bush in Washington, said today that elements of the American government were "fixated" on attacking Iraq and that only Secretary of State Colin L. Powell understood the true dimensions of the challenge.
It was not until early 1955 that Hoover, in the interest of tying up loose ends, finally gave his agents approval to interview Ms. Dukas, who told them that she had been Einstein's only secretary since 1928, exploding the vision of an office full of typists processing secret cable traffic.
I suddenly found myself having to perform the only secretary's duties abroad.
And he's probably the only secretary of state in this coalition government with a ready smile on his face.
