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Donald Henry Rumsfeld

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Donald Henry Rumsfeld 1932-, American government official, b. Chicago, grad. Princeton (B.A.). A Republican with a reputation as a skilled political infighter, he was a congressman from Illinois from 1963 to 1969, when he resigned to become director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in the Nixon administration. Rumsfeld also served as U.S. ambassador to NATO (1971-73) under Nixon and later as President Ford's White House chief of staff (1974-75). In 1975, Rumsfeld was appointed secretary of defense; in that office he attempted to increase the military budget and deal with various problems... Read more
NSC (National Security Council)
...the NSC itself played little role, but NSC Advisor Henry Kissinger was perhaps second only to Nixon in power...with Secretary of State Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the war on terror. NSC members. The chairman of the... Read more

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