Cheney had suggested Rumsfeld to Bush in late December 2000. Rumsfeld was so impressive, Bush told Card at the time. He had had the job in the Ford administration a quarter-century before, and it was ...

Donald Rumsfeld is hardly known as a friend of Europe. So it was a measure of how badly transatlantic relations had deteriorated when even the U.S. secretary of Defense felt compelled to speak out ...