In Sunday’s Washington Post, historian Robert Dalleck argued that it is time for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the administration. Dalleck says that in keeping Rumsfeld on the job, President Bush is keeping someone “who has become the public face of the U.S. debacle in Iraq.”
Dallek details a telephone conversation between Rumsfeld and President Richard Nixon in March 1971. Nixon was offering career advice to the 39-year-old Rumsfeld, then head of the White House’s Office of Economic Opportunity:
“You should be thinking of what you should do in the future . . . Down the road, my view is that you would be a Cabinet officer. . . . [A]nd you can do, as far as I’m concerned, anything in the Cabinet field, except I wouldn’t put you in Defense and I wouldn’t put you in State . . . actually, you could be attorney general.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/?mod=home_law_left
Get thy Rummy to thy nursing home!
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