Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
You could put it that way if you wanted to cause people concern. On the other hand, you could report it as I said it.
The secretary was responding to a reporter who had dramatically paraphrased what the secretary had said and asked if this would be correct.
Donald Rumsfeld, U. S. Secretary of Defense (Republican), U. S. Congressman (Republican, IL), White House Chief of Staff, Defense Department Press Briefing, April 15, 2004
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Armstrong observed that the notion was not original with him but with Edmund Burke. See {610721}.
After the invasion, much of the intelligence upon which America relied on Invading Iraq turned out to be completely wrong. It turned out that the Vice President at least, a major supporter of the invasion, had a role in “shaping” the intelligence and analysis to achieve a policy objective.
Haig was generally not terribly eloquent but he was very well read. “Terminological inexactitude” was coined by Winston Churchill. See {625509} .
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. Many historians would argue with the use of the verb “lie”. Many admit to some “embellishment” to illustrate and clarify points for the reader. Twain, a great humorist uses the technique of being literal at some points and extreme at others.
See {115604} for a similar sentiment from England.
Donald Henry Rumsfeld is a retired American politician. Rumsfeld served as Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and again from January 2001 to December 2006 under George W. Bush. He is both the youngest and the second-oldest person to have served as Secretary of Defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a three-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963–69), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969–70), counsellor to the president (1969–73), the United States Permanent Representative to NATO (1973–74), and White House Chief of Staff (1974–75). Between his terms as Secretary of Defense, he served as the CEO and chairman of several companies.
