September 10, 2007
Posted: 03:46 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Donald Rumsfeld served as President Bush's Secretary of Defense for six years, but he told GQ magazine he doesn't miss his old boss and the two now rarely talk. In an issue set to hit the newsstands on Sept. 25, Rumsfeld tells the magazine he still likes Bush but can't recall the last time he spoke with the president. And asked directly if he misses the president, Rumsfeld told the Magazine, "Um, no." But Rumsfeld offered Bush praise, and claimed that he is a victim of the media not giving him enough credit in a similar fashion that previous Republican presidents have had to endure. "Just think, in my lifetime, the Republican presidential candidates: Dwight D. Eisenhower, considered to be a bumbler, bad syntax. Gerald Ford, the best athlete they had in decades, and they called him a stumblebum and demeaned him and made fun of him. Said he wasn't smart, which he was. He'd gone to Michigan, he'd gone to Yale Law School. I mean… And Ronald Reagan. You read his diaries now, and the man is remarkable — and yet he was dismissed as a movie actor and not very smart.” Rumseld added, "So, I mean the fact that President Bush is demeaned is no different than Eisenhower or Ford or Reagan. And the fact that people believe that to be the case is not a surprise when they're told it day in, day out, by the, uh, eastern media." Filed under: Donald Rumsfeld August 16, 2007
Posted: 08:47 AM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) – CNN Pentagon Producer Mike Mount has obtained a copy of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter. (View letter [PDF]) The letter is actually dated November 6, 2006 — the day before the midterm elections — even though the resignation was not announced until November 8. President Bush has previously acknowledged the decision for Rumseld to leave was made before the midterm elections. "The reason why [Rumsfeld didn't resign before Tuesday] is I didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign," Bush said the day of the resignation announcement. The word "Iraq" does not appear anywhere in the letter. Filed under: Donald Rumsfeld |
 
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