Known and Unknown (103 page)
Authors: Donald Rumsfeld
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Rumsfeld to Bush et al., “Iraq Policy: Proposal for the New Phase,” December 8, 2006.
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OSD Policy, “Security Update: Situation in al-Anbar,” October 26, 2006.
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Rumsfeld, “IraqâIllustrative New Courses of Action,” November 6, 2006.
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Rumsfeld, “IraqâIllustrative New Courses of Action,” November 6, 2006.
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Peter W. Rodman,
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 266.
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Peter Rodman,
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 267.
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Department of Defense notes of NSC meeting, December 13, 2006.
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Peter Rodman,
Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign
Policy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), p. 268.
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Joel Roberts, “Senator Reid on Iraq: âThis War Is Lost,'” CBS News, April 20, 2007; Barack Obama, interviewed by Tim Russert,
Meet the Press,
NBC News, October 22, 2006.
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Juan Abdel Nasser, “The 12 Fastest Growing Economies in 2010,” Economy Watch. com, October 13, 2009.
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Department of Defense,
The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America,
March 2005.
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Rumsfeld to Rice et al., “Iraq,” July 27, 2001.
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Henry Kissinger,
Years of Upheaval
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1982), p. 638.
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George W. Bush, address, Joint Session of Congress, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001.
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Rumsfeld, “What Are We Fighting? Is It a Global War on Terror?” June 18, 2004.
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Wolfowitz to Rumsfeld, “National Defense Strategy,” February 7, 2005.
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Rumsfeld to Card et al., “Mobilizing Moderate Muslims,” July 19, 2005.
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Adlai E. Stevenson, address at the Senior Class Banquet, Princeton Class of 1954, March 22, 1954.
1
With my sister Joan, c. 1938.
2
Lt. George Rumsfeld and Jeannette Rumsfeld, Coronado, California, c. 1944. Like so many others, our lives were changed by Pearl Harbor and World War II. We were not surprised by Dad's decision to volunteer for the U.S. Navy. He lived by the simple rule, “Do the right thing.”
3
Becoming an Eagle Scout was an important activity for me as a young man (top center). As a guide at the Philmont Scout Ranch, I came to know New Mexico.
4
The Princeton University Varsity wrestling team in 1953 (fourth from left). Wrestling brought home to me the relationship between effort and results.
5
With Joyce, June 1954. Quite a month! I graduated from Princeton, was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy, and asked Joyce to marry me. She said yes.
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The airplanes I flew when serving in the Navy are now all in museums (author upper right).
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In my first campaign for Congress, Joyce and our two daughters, Marcy and Valerie, equently hit the trail with me in an effort make me seem more established than my wenty-nine years suggested.
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With campaign manager Ned Jannotta after winning the 1962 Illinois 13th District primary election. When the results came in at our headquarters, the volunteers and I were amazed.
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During the 1962 general election campaign for Congress, former President Dwight Eisenhower visited Illinois. I attended a lunch in his honor. During coffee whoever was sitting next to him got up so I could have a picture with Ike, who graciously put me at ease. It was the first time I had met a president.
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With House Minority Leader Gerald Ford outside the Speaker's Lobby of the United States House of Representatives. If our paths hadn't crossed in the years we served in Congress, both of our lives would have turned out quite differently.
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As a member of the Manned Space Flight Subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1960s, I met with many of our country's pioneers in space. I introduced Marcy to Gus Grissom (right), the first man to fly twice beyond inner space. We were joined by the irrepressible Vice President Hubert Humphrey (center). Grissom died some months later in a test of Apollo I.
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Just days after Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, Congress passed a bill to strengthen the 1964 Civil Rights Act. I was honored to receive one of the pens President Johnson used to sign the bill.