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• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 27

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

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The must-read summary of Donald Rumsfeld's book: “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”.

This complete summary of "Known and Unknown" by Donald Rumsfeld, an American politician, businessman and former Secretary of Defense, presents his autobiographical account of his career and time in government. He addresses the challenges and controversies of his time as Secretary of Defense during 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the observations he made during these happenings. 

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Book Presentation: Known and Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld

Book Abstract

Donald Rumsfeld entered the public arena when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Illinois’ 13th congressional district in 1962 at the age of 30. He resigned from Congress in 1969 – during his fourth term – to serve in the Nixon administration in various capacities. Then in February 1973 he left Washington to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO. Rumsfeld stayed there until August 1974 when he was called back to Washington to serve as transition chairman for incoming president Gerald Ford who had been his confidante since their days when Ford was House minority leader. During Ford’s presidency, Rumsfeld would serve as White House Chief of Staff and as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977.

From 1977 until 2001, Rumsfeld built a successful business career serving in several CEO and chairman positions. When President George W. Bush took office in 2001, he named Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary. That put him front-and-center for the high profile events of that era: the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the 2006 Abu Gharib torture and prisoner abuse scandal and more. Rumsfeld ultimately resigned on November 6, 2006. He is the second-longest-serving Secretary of Defense in history falling nine days short of the term of Robert McNamara, the Vietnam-era Secretary of Defense.

About the Author

Donald Rumsfeld served as the thirteenth and then again as the twenty-first U.S. Secretary of Defense. He today chairs the Rumsfeld Foundation which supports leadership, public service and the growth of free economic systems abroad.

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The Early Days

Donald Rumsfeld was born in Chicago on July 9, 1932 – by coincidence the day the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its lowest recorded point of the Great Depression. He pretty much grew up in and around Chicago except for the years of World War II when his father served in the Navy and the family moved to California to be near where his father’s ship was based. Rumsfeld attended Princeton on a naval ROTC scholarship which paid his expenses and provided fifty dollars a month in spending money. As part of that program, he was required to do six weeks training a year and then to serve a minimum of three years as an ensign in the regular Navy upon graduation. Rumsfeld applied to become a naval aviator and upon graduation from Princeton was assigned to the Naval Flight School in Pensacola, Florida. Before he went there, he managed to head back to Chicago and propose to his high school sweetheart, Marion Joyce Pearson, who accepted and they were married on December 27, 1954. Rumsfeld served for three years in the Navy and tried to get assigned to an aircraft carrier-based fighter squadron but ended up becoming a naval flight instructor and then later an instructor of flight instructors. He transferred to the Naval Reserve at the end of three-and-a-half years active duty and returned to Chicago to look for work.