Rumsfeld: The Secretary We Had

Jacob Heilbrunn reviews Andrew Cockburn's biography of Donald Rumsfeld: "Bush knew that his father hated Rumsfeld, which served as a kind of recommendation, and Rumsfeld, who was well aware of the contentious relations between the two Bushes, played to the younger man's insecurity, reassuring him that he was eminently suited to be president. 'In return,' Cockburn writes, Bush could give what Rumsfeld customarily exacted from close associates: loyalty and obedience."

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