Donald Rumsfeld Talks About His Upcoming Memoir -- L.A. TimesDonald Rumsfeld's memoir "Known and Unknown" is coming to bookstores Feb. 8. The former secretary of defense, now 78, sat down with the Associated Press to talk about the book, which used White House memos, letters, personal interviews and Rumsfeld's own prodigious output of paperwork as resources; it clocks in at more than 800 pages.
"I started thinking about this amazing archive I had," he says during a recent interview. "The fact that I had it, persuaded me that I ought to take advantage of it."...
As defense secretary under Bush, Rumsfeld issued thousands of memos, "snowflakes," they were called. He reads from some issued in 2003 and in 2005: "Are we winning or losing the war on terror?" "Is the U.S. government changing fast enough?" "Do we need more troops? And if so, where and for what purpose?"
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Update: Donald Rumsfeld Reflects on Writing of Memoir -- ABC News
My Comment: I suspect that he is enjoying retirement. On a side note, his memoir .... “Known and Unknown” .... will be released February 8.
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