Bath, England COULD there be a single phrase that explains the woes of our time, this dismal age of political miscalculations and deceptions, of reckless and disastrous wars, of financial boom and bust and downright criminality? Maybe there is, and we owe it to Fintan O'Toole. That trenchant Irish commentator is a biographer and theater critic, and...
A Pentagon public relations program that sought to transform high-profile military analysts into ''surrogates'' and ''message force multipliers'' for the Bush administration complied with Defense Department regulations and directives, the Pentagon's inspector general has concluded after a two-year investigation. The inquiry was prompted by articles...
NO HIGHER HONOR A Memoir of My Years in Washington By Condoleezza Rice Illustrated. 766 pp. Crown Publishers. $35. They were an unlikely pair: the cerebral A-student from a striving black family and the son of privilege who as a candidate for president couldn't name Pakistan's military ruler. But together they forged a vision of a muscular United...
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (født 9. juli 1932) var amerikansk forsvarsminister 2001-2006 under præsident George W. Bush. Han bestred samme post under præsident Gerald Ford fra 1975 til 1977.
Donald Rumsfeld blev født i Evanston, Illinois, til George Donald Rumsfeld og Jeannette Huster. Hans oldefader Johann Heinrich Rumsfeld emigrerede fra Weyhe nær Bremen i Nordtyskland i 1876. Rumsfeld voksede op i Winnetka, Illinois.
Rumsfeld trådte ud af Kongressen i 1969 — efter 4 perioder - for at arbejde for Nixon-administrationen som Leder for de forenede staters kontor for Økonomiske Muligheder (Engelsk: Director of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity), Assistent for Præsidenten, og medlem af Præsidentens Kabinet (1969–70); udnævnt til rådgiver for præsidenten i december 1970 , leder af Det Økonomiske Stabiliseringsprogram; og medlem af Præsidentens Kabinet (1971–72). Fold ud