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• Oct. 9, 1968: Republican Reps. Gerald Ford, left, of Michigan, and Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois, confer during a House squabble over a bill to facilitate a televised presidential debate.
• Feb. 2, 1973: U.N. Ambassador to NATO Donald Rumsfeld takes oath of office from Chief Justice Warren E. Burger at the White House.
• April 26, 1971: Pope Paul VI greets Donald Rumsfeld, head of the Office of Economic Opportunity and his wife Joyce at the Vatican.
• April 21, 1969: President Richard M. Nixon announces the appointment of Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, R-Ill., a director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and as a presidential assistant with Cabinet rank.
• Jan. 28, 1976: U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, right, chats with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. George Brown prior to their testifying before the House Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C.
• Nov. 3, 1983: President Ronald Reagan, with his newly named Middle East envoy Donald Rumsfeld defends the use of U.S. troops in Grenada during a press confeence at the White House.
• Nov. 14, 2001: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, left, tours ground zero of the World Trade Center disaster with New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in New York.
• Dec. 16, 2001: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld throws up his arms up as he concludes his town hall meeting with troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.
• Aug. 20, 2002: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, left, gestures as he jokes with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace during a Pentagon briefing.
• Aug. 27, 2002: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gives an American flag that flew over the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, to Marines at at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
• Oct. 16, 2002: President Bush, left, flanked by Secretary of State Colin Powell, center, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, pauses before signing a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq in the White House.
• Nov. 21, 2002: President Bush listens to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice look on during a NATO summit in Prague.
• April 14, 2003: Washington Wizards' Michael Jordan receives a U.S. flag from U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld during the opening ceremonies of Jordan's last home game at the MCI Center in Washington.
• Sept. 11, 2004: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld greets NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon, left, before the Chevy Rock & Roll 400 race at the Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Va.
• May 7, 2004: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gestures as he answers a question asked by a House Armed Services Committee member during the committee hearing on on prisoner abuse in Iraq.
• Nov. 8, 2006: President Bush, center, flanked by outgoing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, left, and his Defense Secretary-nominee Robert Gates, announces Rumsfeld's resignation in the Oval Office.