THE BOOK DESCRIPTION "Exemplary public servant and a very good man", "Never paled before tough decisions, and never flinched from responsibility. He brought needed and timely reforms to the Department of Defense, along with a management style that stressed original thinking and accountability." Bush Donald Rumsfeld, the sharp engineer of the Iraq war and an expert Washington power player who filled in as US secretary of Defense for two presidents, has passed on at 88 years old. The combative financial specialist, civil servant and previous legislator helped drag casualties out of the consuming Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The al Qaeda assaults proclaimed the Conflict on Dread and long periods of unfamiliar traps that he coordinated and that eventually finished his political profession when they turned sour. He had recently served in the job for President Gerald Bush during the 1970s and history will recollect him as the most young and the second-most established Defense secretary. Contents Ø Early life and education Ø Naval service Ø Career in government (1962-1977) Ø Member of Congress Ø Nixon administration Ø Ford administration Ø Secretary of Defense (1975-1977) Ø Return to the private sector (1977-2000) Ø Business career Ø Part-time public service Ø Presidential and vice-presidential aspirations Ø Secretary of Defense (2001-2006) Ø September 11, 2001 attacks AND MORE OF WHAT YOU DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS DISASTROUS DEFENSE SECRETARY. Rumsfeld had a bubbly character and could be devilish and presumptuous, however pundits - remembering some for the Bush administration - viewed him as self-important and a domineering jolt Rumsfeld would not own up to fault for or disavow the direct of the contention when conditions disintegrated and US troops confronted a horrible uprising - after the weapons of mass annihilation on which the Bush administration had used to legitimize the attack in 2003 never emerged. His choice to demand a "light impression" for US troops was faulted by numerous pundits for the breakdown of the Iraqi state after the US attack - conditions that took care of the rebellion and cracked security. Large numbers of his opponents additionally considered Rumsfeld liable for the prisoner misuse outrage in the Abu Ghraib jail close to Baghdad that seriously discolored America's standing abroad. He had additionally anticipated that a contention that in the end delayed for quite a long time would be a short conflict. US troops overturned the Iraqi system in practically no time except for Rumsfeld's faultfinders blamed him for having no arrangement for the result of the attack. Rumsfeld died in the week in which President Joe Biden is required to finish US inclusion in the contention in Afghanistan, which was dispatched while Rumsfeld was at the Pentagon and is America's longest war. In his second go-around in the Pentagon, Rumsfeld was known for a confrontational attitude toward military brass and the press. Making the WMD case against Iraq, he produced one of his most notorious quotes in 2002. "There are known knowns; there are things we know, we know," Rumsfeld told reporters. "We also know there are known unknowns, that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know." GRAB A COPY TO READ MORE!!