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Rumsfeld, Why He Fights

The Early Years

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• Rep. Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois on January 17, 1963
• Rep. Gerald Ford of Michigan and Rep. Donald Rumsfeld of Illinois, conferring on October 9, 1968.
• Rumsfeld, as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, speaking at his first press conference in 1969.
• President Nixon appointing Rep. Donald Rumsfeld as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity on April 21, 1969.
• Rumsfeld, as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, speaks to reporters in 1969.
• Donald Rumsfeld takes the oath of office from Chief Justice Warren Burger as U.N. ambassador to NATO, on February 2, 1973.
• Rumsfeld says "goodbye" as the youngest Secretary of Defense in the nation's history, on January 18, 1977.
• Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney meet with reporters at the White House on November 7, 1975.
• Rumsfeld attempts one-armed pushups.
• President Ford conferring with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld prior to the start of a cabinet meeting on April 14, 1976.
• President Ford, flanked by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on November 5, 1976.