AS HE sat in the Pentagon on September 11th 2001, Donald Rumsfeld felt the table tremble. It had once been used by General William Tecumseh Sherman; no trembler he. At the same moment, the whole building shook. Running out across the grass, he saw a huge blackened gash in the west side, figures scrambling out of it, dense smoke and flames. He ran towards the fire to help. His staff tried to hustle him to safety, but he wouldn’t have it. The terrorists were not going to win on his watch. The Pentagon, he declared on TV, would be back in business in the morning.
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld ran to the fire at the Pentagon to assist the wounded and ensure the safety of survivors, expressed a mournful George W. Bush in a statement. For the next five years, he was in steady service as a wartime secretary of defense – a duty he carried out with strength, skill, and honor.
Long before Donald Trump took aim at irritating facts and dissenting eggheads, Donald Rumsfeld, two times defense secretary and key planner behind the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was doing his far from negligible bit. When asked at his confirmation hearing about what worried him most when he went to bed at night, he responded accordingly: intelligence. The danger that we can be surprised because of a failure of imagining what might happen in the world.
Died: June 29, 2021 DONALD Rumsfeld, who has died aged 88, was an outstanding example of the American political fixer. As well as being, for several terms, a Congressman, he served (twice) as Secretary for Defence, was White House Chief of Staff and US representative on Nato, a close confidant of Presidents Nixon, Ford and George W Bush, and described by Henry Kissinger as “the most ruthless man” he knew. Rumsfeld’s political fortunes and reputation fluctuated wildly, even by the standards of Washington’s Beltway. Shortly after the attacks of 9/11, and during the period when he was the chief strategist behind the – initially popular – invasion of Afghanistan, he was the subject of highly favourable profiles describing him as an unlikely sex symbol (he was 70 at the time).
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Personal
Death date: June 30, 2021
Birth place: Chicago, Illinois
Father: George Donald Rumsfeld, a real estate salesman
Mother: Jeannette (Huster) Rumsfeld
Children: Nick, Marcy and Valerie
Education: Princeton University, B.A. in Political Science, 1954
Military service: US Navy pilot and flight instructor, 1954-1957; US Navy Reserves, 1957-1989, retired as a captain
Other Facts
Rumsfeld has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1977) and the Woodrow Wilson Award from Princeton University (1985).
Was captain of the football and wrestling teams at Princeton.
Timeline
1960-1962 – Works at investment banking company, A.G. Becker in Chicago.
1962 – Is elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois’ 13th District. During Rumsfeld’s years in Congress, he supports the war in Vietnam and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, while opposing many of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” programs.
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