Known and Unknown

by Donald Rumsfeld

  CHAPTER 6 Young Turks

  1. Rumsfeld, “The Ford-Halleck Race 1964-1965,” June 7, 2000.

  2. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “House GOP to Hold Non-Halleck Caucus,” Chicago Sun-Times, December 1, 1964.

  3. William McGaffin, “House GOP ‘Young Turks’ Study Gains,” Chicago Daily News, December 17, 1964.

  4. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “House GOP to Hold Non-Halleck Caucus,” Chicago Sun-Times, December 1, 1964.

  5. “Challenge to Charlie,” Time, December 25, 1964.

  6. “These Are My Guys,” Time, November 17, 1975.

  7. Rumsfeld, “Republican Congressmen—1965—89th Congress,” tally sheet for Ford-Halleck Race, January 1965.

  8. Rumsfeld, “The Ford-Halleck Race 1964–1965,” June 7, 2000.

  9. Yanek Mieczkowski, Gerald Ford and the Challenges of the 1970s (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005), pp. 10–11; Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 77.

  10. Michael Beschloss, ed., Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 164.

  11. Michael Beschloss, ed., Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson’s Secret White House Tapes, 1964–1965 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p.164.

  12. Rumsfeld voting record, “Vietnam Appropriation, H. J. Res 447,” May 5, 1965.

  13. “The Second Session of the 89th Congress Is Well Underway,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 2, no. 5, March 1966.

  14. “Undercurrent of Doubt in Tonkin Gulf Affair,” Republican National Committee Radio News, June 12, 1966.

  15. Rumsfeld, draft, “Remarks on the U.S. Problem in South Viet Nam,” April 11, 1966.

  16. Rumsfeld and Callaway, interviewed by Lisagor and Nicodemus, May 31, 1966, rough transcript.

  17. “The Situation in South Vietnam,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1968.

  18. “The Situation in South Vietnam,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 3, no. 5, May 1968.

  19. Rumsfeld voting record, “Defense Authorization, FY 1966 — HR 12889,” March 1, 1966.

  20. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), p. 16.

  21. House Concurrent Resolution 508, 90th Cong., 1st sess., September 25, 1967.

  22. Rumsfeld, “Statement Before the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress,” June 2, 1965.

  23. “U.S. Conduct of War Ripped by Rumsfeld,” Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1966.

  24. “U.S. Conduct of War Ripped by Rumsfeld,” Chicago Tribune, April 13, 1966.

  25. “Selective Service,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, April 10, 1967.

  26. “Selective Service,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 3, no. 1, April 10, 1967.

  27. Rumsfeld, statement prepared for presentation to the House Committee on Armed Services, quoting Harold Wool, Director of the Office of Procurement Policy and General Research (Manpower), May 2, 1967.

  28. “Selective Service Act,” Congressman Donald Rumsfeld Reports, vol. 3, no. 2,September 1967.

  29. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation Announcing Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam and Reporting His Decision Not to Seek Reelection,” March 31, 1968.

  PART FOUR In Nixon’s Arena

  1. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum—Rumsfeld Personal File,” August 1974.

  CHAPTER 7 1968: Year of Turmoil

  1. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

  2. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

  3. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968; Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  4. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

  5. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

  6. Rumsfeld, “confidential Memo—1968 Nixon Meeting to Discuss Vice Presidential Nomination,” August 8, 1968.

  7. “Now the Republic,” Time, August 16, 1968.

  8. “Nixon Picks Agnew as Running Mate,” Chicago Tribune, August 9, 1968.

  9. Rumsfeld, statement, “Concerning Activity in the City of Chicago, Illinois, During the Democratic National Convention,” October 1, 1968.

  10. Jeffrey Kimball, Nixon’s Vietnam War (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998), p. 32.

  11. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.

  12. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 15, 1968.

  CHAPTER 8 The Job That Couldn’t Be Done

  1. Richard Nixon, speech, acceptance of Republican presidential nomination, twenty-ninth Republican National Convention, August 8, 1968.

  2. Rumsfeld voting record, “Anti-Poverty Economic Opportunity Act—HR 11377,” 88th Cong., 2d sess., August 8, 1964.

  3. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], April 4, 1969.

  4. William H. Rehnquist, “Re: Appointment of Congressman to the Office of Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity,” April 14, 1969.

  5. Jack Anderson, “Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office,” Washington Post, September 22, 1969.

  6. Jack Anderson, “Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office,” Washington Post, September 22, 1969.

  7. Rumsfeld, “The Washington Merry-Go-Round Column by Jack Anderson titled: ‘Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office’ (The Washington Post—Monday, September 22, 1969),” undated.

  8. “Scoops On Target and Off,” Time, April 3, 1972; “The Case of the O.E.O. Office,” New York Times, August 13, 1972.

  9. Milton and Rose D. Friedman, Two Lucky People: Memoirs (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 344–45.

  10. Eric Wentworth, “OEO Plans Test of Education Vouchers,” Washington Post, December 26, 1970.

  11. Terry Lenzner, as quoted in Rowan Scarborough, Rumsfeld’s War: The Untold Story of America’s Anti-Terrorist Commander (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 73.

  12. Rumsfeld, letter to Hoover, November 11, 1969.

  CHAPTER 9 Counsellor

  1. Rebecca Roberts, “Kent State Shooting Divided Campus and Country,” Talk of the Nation, WKSU/National Public Radio, Kent, OH: May 3, 2010.

  2. Donald Murdoch to Rumsfeld, “Jackson Visit,” May 18, 1970.

  3. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), p. 77.

  4. H. R. Haldeman to Bob Ehrlichman, Bob Finch, Bryce Harlow, Donald Rumsfeld, and George Shultz, [No Subject], June 15, 1970.

  5. Stephen E. Ambrose, “Comparing and Contrasting Ike and Dick,” in Richard M. Nixon: Politician, President, Administrator, edited by Leon Friedman and William F. Levantrosser (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991), p. 15.

  6. Rumsfeld to Nixon, “The Administration and Minorities,” March 18, 1971.

  7. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting, July 10, 1970,” July 10, 1970; Kissinger, handwritten note, July 10, 1970.

  8. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], January 15, 1971.

  9. Nixon and Rumsfeld, taped conversation, July 22, 1971.

  10. Rumsfeld, “Key Biscayne Meeting,” November 7, 1970.

  11. Rumsfeld voting record, “Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, Establish—HR 6927,” Roll Call #142, 89th Cong., 1st sess., June 16, 1965.

  12. James Reston, Jr., The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989), pp. 396–97.

  13. Richard Nixon, Executive Order 11615: “Providing for Stabilization of Prices, Rents, Wages, and Salaries,” August 15, 1971.

  14. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  15. John Cassidy, �
�The Hayek Century,” Hoover Digest, no. 3, 2000.

  16. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  17. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  18. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  19. Rumsfeld to Haldeman, “Response to your Memo of June 12th on the President and the Campaign,” June 16, 1972 (Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum).

  20. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, “GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging Affair,” Washington Post, June 19, 1972.

  21. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, “GOP Security Aide Among Five Arrested in Bugging Affair,” Washington Post, June 19, 1972.

  22. Jonathan Aitken, Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (New York: Doubleday, 2005), p. 167.

  23. Rumsfeld, “Watergate,” August 9, 1973.

  24. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting,” November 8, 1972.

  25. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting,” November 8, 1972.

  26. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting,” November 8, 1972.

  27. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), p. 8.

  28. White House memo, “Post-Election Activities,” November 8, 1972.

  29. Richard Reeves, President Nixon: Alone in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 550.

  30. Rumsfeld, “At Camp David,” November 20, 1972.

  31. Nixon and Rumsfeld, taped conversation, July 22, 1971.

  32. David S. Broder, “Rumsfeld Says New Job Rounds Out Education,” Washington Post, December 5, 1972.

  CHAPTER 10 NATO and Nixon’s Fall

  1. Rumsfeld, draft, “Talking Points on Use of Government Vehicles,” undated.

  2. Laurence Stern and Haynes Johnson, “3 Top Nixon Aides, Kleindienst Out,” Washington Post, June 1, 1973.

  3. Hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and Subcommittee on Europe, “Proposals to Reduce American Troop Level in Europe,” statement of Donald Rumsfeld, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1973.

  4. Rumsfeld, “Notes for Rumsfeld File,” October 1973.

  5. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober, February 18, 1994, transcript.

  6. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), p. 77.

  7. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from Gen. Al Haig,” July 22, 1974.

  8. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from Gen. Al Haig,” July 22, 1974.

  9. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with SYG Luns,” July 16, 1974.

  10. Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset & Dunlap), p. 1042.

  11. Rumsfeld, “Phone Conversation with President Richard Nixon on 8/12/83,” August 12, 1983.

  12. Martin Weil and Eleanor Randolph, “Richard M. Nixon, 37th President, Dies,” Washington Post, April 23, 1994.

  13. Martin Weil and Eleanor Randolph, “Richard M. Nixon, 37th President, Dies,” Washington Post, April 23, 1994.

  14. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], May 13, 1994.

  PART FIVE Javelin Catcher: Inside the Ford White House

  1. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 59–60.

  2. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 60.

  CHAPTER 11 Restoring Trust

  1. Scranton and Whitehead, letter to Rumsfeld, August 9, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Memorandum—Rumsfeld Personal File,” August 1974; Jerry terHorst, news conference at the White House, August 10, 1974 (Press briefing, 8/10/74, Box 1, Ron Nessen Files, Gerald R. Ford Library).

  2. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 126.

  3. Rumsfeld, “Meeting in the Cabinet Room,” August 9, 1974.

  4. Marjorie Hunter, “Kissinger Will Remain Secretary of State; Ford Likely to Keep Other Aides Also,” New York Times, August 9, 1974.

  5. Rumsfeld, “Meeting in the Cabinet Room,” August 9, 1974.

  6. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], October 2, 1974.

  7. Philip Shabecoff, “Ford Bids Cabinet and Agency Heads Remain in Posts,” New York Times, August 11, 1974; Rumsfeld to Ford, “A Vice President,” August 13, 1974.

  8. “The Veepstakes,” Newsweek, August 26, 1974.

  9. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.

  10. “The Veepstakes,” Newsweek, August 26, 1974.

  11. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Meeting with the President, Oval Office,” August 15, 1974.

  12. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” August 20, 1974, 10:00 a.m.

  13. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.

  14. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” August 20, 1974, [time unknown].

  15. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.

  16. Christopher Lydon, “G.O.P. Still Faces the Realities of Decay and Minority Status,” New York Times, September 1, 1974.

  17. John Herbers, “Optimism Voiced,” New York Times, August 21, 1974.

  18. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting: Ford Administration,” August 10, 1974.

  19. Transition Team memo, “Personnel,” hand-delivered by Rumsfeld to Ford on August 20, 1974; Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), pp. 733–34.

  20. “‘The Sun Is Shining Again,’” Newsweek, August 26, 1974.

  21. Rumsfeld, “Cabinet Meeting: Ford Administration,” August 10, 1974.

  22. Gerald R. Ford, “Remarks on Signing a Proclamation Granting Pardon to Richard Nixon,” September 8, 1974.

  23. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), pp. 196–99.

  24. Adam Clymer, “Ford Wins Kennedy Award for ‘Courage’ of Nixon Pardon,” New York Times, May 22, 2001; Bill Boyarsky, “Kennedy Says He Doubts Public Will Stand for Pardon,” Los Angeles Times, September 14, 1974.

  25. Donald Rumsfeld, letter to George Rumsfeld, October 15, 1954.

  26. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from the President,” September 19, 1974.

  27. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 186.

  28. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Conversation with President,” September 22, 1974.

  CHAPTER 12 A Rocky Start

  1. Rumsfeld to Buchen, [No Subject], September 29, 1974.

  2. Rumsfeld, “Safe in Haig’s Office,” September 29, 1974; Cheney, “Safe with Attached Receipt,” September 29, 1974.

  3. Gannon, letter to Rumsfeld, October 31, 1974.

  4. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum for the File,” October 5, 1974.

  5. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 3, 1974.

  6. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum for the File,” October 5, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Phone call from Ron Ziegler, 8:20 AM (5:20 AM in California),” October 5, 1974.

  7. Rumsfeld to Cheney, [No Subject], October 13, 1974.

  8. Rumsfeld, “Memo: Meeting with the President,” October 11, 1974.

  9. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 17, 1974.

  10. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 187.

  11. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 187.

  12. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” November 13, 1974.

  13. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President (10/18/74) from 1:10–1:14,” October 18, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 23, 1974.

  14. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, letter to Ford, June 23, 1975.

  15. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Solzhenitsyn, Kissinger and Détente,” Washington Post, July 20, 1975.
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  16. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” July 9, 1975, 11:32; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” July 9, 1975, 17:28; Cheney to Rumsfeld, “Solzhenitsyn,” July 8, 1975.

  17. Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, “Snubbing Solzhenitsyn,” Washington Post, July 17, 1975.

  18. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum of Telephone Conversation from the President,” September 19, 1974.

  19. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974.

  20. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974; Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 2, 1974.

  21. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Oval Office,” October 8, 1974.

  22. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, September 16, 1975; Jude Wanniski, “Taxes, Revenues, and the ‘Laffer Curve,’” Public Interest (Winter 1978).

  23. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President: Pearl Harbor Day,” December 7, 1974.

  24. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 19, 1974.

  25. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 1, 1974.

  26. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 21, 1974.

  27. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” December 21, 1974.

  28. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” January 3, 1975.

  29. Joseph E. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 261.

  30. Sam Roberts, “Serving as Ford’s No. 2, Rockefeller Never Took His Eye Off Top Job,” New York Times, December 31, 2006.

  31. David Burnham, “Rockefeller Plan Splits Ford Aides,” New York Times, September 5, 1975; Rumsfeld, “Continuation: Meeting with the President,” August 27, 1975.

  32. Rumsfeld, interviewed by Cary Reich, February 24, 1992, transcript.

  33. David Burnham, “Greenspan Asserts Energy Loan Plan Could Have Potential for Corruption,” New York Times, September 6, 1975.

  34. Gerald R. Ford, A Time to Heal: The Autobiography of Gerald R. Ford (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), p. 327.

  35. Frank Van Riper, “Ford to City: Drop Dead,” Daily News, October 30, 1975.

  36. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the President,” October 24, 1975.

  37. Hobart Rowen, “Energy Plan is Victory for Rockefeller,” Washington Post, September 24, 1975; Joseph Lelyveld, “Rockefeller Making an Impact on Policy,” New York Times, September 27, 1975.