...with the investment firm since 2000. Additionally, former Treasury Secretary John Snow and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are also involved in Cerberus. In recent years the once much-ridiculed VP has served as the door-opener for Cerberus,...
...than the decision to keep Robert Gates at the Pentagon? There will be no rush from Iraq. True, after the ruinous tenure of Donald Rumsfeld, the current defence secretary has been a powerful and intelligent force for sanity during the twilight years of...
...security team that President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday, it seems appropriate to invoke this bit of wisdom that Donald Rumsfeld uttered in February 2002, a little more than 13 months after President George W. Bush appointed him secretary of Defense....
...has already earned him a brickbat from a die-hard in the first comment. Perhaps Greg D thinks that "Robert Gates" is "Donald Rumsfeld." If so, he's quite wrong. If a passenger plane is headed for the side of a mountain, do you leave the drunken pilot at...
Background
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a United States businessman, politician, the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (68 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, behind Robert McNamara.
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