Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States on July 9th, 1932 and is the Politician. At the age of 88, Donald Rumsfeld biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career in government (1962–1975)
Rumsfeld served as administrative assistant to David S. Dennison Jr., a congressman representing Ohio's 11th district. He began in 1959 to serve as a staff assistant to Michigan Congressman Robert P. Griffin. Rumsfeld, who worked with investment banking company A. G. Becker & Co. from 1960 to 1962, decided on becoming a member of Congress.
In 1962, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives for Illinois' 13th congressional district, the highest seat in the state's 13th congressional district at the age of 30, and 1968, by majorities in 1964, 1966, and 1968. He served on the Joint Economic Committee, the Committee on Science and Aeronautics, and the Government Operations Committee, as well as the Subcommittees on Military and Foreign Operations while in Congress. In addition to being a leading promoter of the Freedom of Information Act, he was also a co-founder of the Japanese-American Inter-Parliamentary Council.
Rumsfeld suggested that Senator Gerald Ford of Michigan's 5th congressional district, not necessarily losing many seats in the House of Representatives, in 1965, following Barry Goldwater's assassination of Barry Goldwater by Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 presidential race, which also resulted in the Republicans losing a large number of seats. Rumsfeld, along with other members of the Republican caucus, then encouraged Gerald Ford to run for Republican president. In 1965, Ford defeated Halleck and became the House Minority Leader. The group of Republicans who advised Ford to run for the Republican leadership later became known as the "Young Turks" in the media. Rumsfeld later served as Ford's chief of staff in 1974, and Ford chose James Schlesinger to replace him as his Defense Minister in 1975.
During Rumsfeld's tenure as a member of the United States House of Representatives, he expressed reservations about the Vietnam War's effectiveness, saying that President Johnson and his national security staff was too overconfident with how the war was being carried out. Rumsfeld and some other House members of the House of Commons joined one another on a fact-finding trip to see for themselves how the war was unfolding. Rumsfeld later learned that the South Vietnamese government was much too dependent on the US. General William Westmoreland, the commander of the United States troops in Vietnam, was unsatisfied with his briefing on war planning. Rumsfeld was forced to cosponsor a motion to bring the conduct of the war to the House floor for further debate and discussion of the mismanagement that ultimately determined the fate of the war. However, the Democrats, who at the time were under constant pressure from the Johnson administration, decided against the bill from being considered.
Rumsfeld, a young congressman, attended seminars at the University of Chicago, which he credits with introducing him to the notion of an all volunteer military corpse, as well as economist Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics. He appeared in Friedman's PBS series Free to Choose later.
Rumsfeld voted in favour of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1968, as well as the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Rumsfeld resigned from Congress in 1969 – his fourth term – to serve in the Nixon administration in a variety of executive branch positions. Nixon named Rumsfeld as the head of the United States Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), a cabinet position. Rumsfeld rejected the creation of OEO while in Congress, but in his 2011 memoirs, he rejected Nixon's bid citing his own belief that the OEO did more harm than good, and he felt he was not the right one for the job. 119–121 He accepted the OEO appointment with Nixon's "warrants that he would be more than an assistant to the President" with Cabinet-level rank and an office in the White House, which "sweetened (the OEO position) with rank and responsibility." Rumsfeld, the reorganizing of the Office as director, needed to be "a laboratory for experimental programs," he later referred to in his 2011 memoir. 125 Many useful anti-poverty services were saved by allocating funds to them from other less-successful government services. He recruited Frank Carlucci and Dick Cheney to work under him during this period.
He was the subject of one of writer Jack Anderson's columns, alleging that "anti-poverty czar" Rumsfeld had cut services to help the homeless, but the poor had to be paid out of funds to redecorate his office. Rumsfeld ordered Anderson to visit his office on four pages, labeling the allegations as falsehoods. Anderson did not retract his statements on the tour, and only later confessed that his column was a mistake.: 125
Nixon appointed Rumsfeld Counselor to the President in December 1970, a general advisory position; in this capacity, he retained Cabinet rank. 75 He was given a West Wing position in 1969 and closely collaborated with the Nixon administration in Washington. He was appointed as the head of the Economic Stabilization Program in 1970 and later headed the Cost of Living Council. "At least Rummy is tough enough" says Nixon about Rumsfeld, "he's a ruthless little bastard." You can be positive of that."
Rumsfeld left Washington, D.C., in February 1973 to serve as the United States' ambassador. Ambassador in Brussels, Belgium, to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). He served as the US Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council and the Defense Planning Committee as well as the Nuclear Planning Group. He served the US in a variety of military and diplomatic capacities, and he was asked to help mediate a war between Cyprus and Turkey.: 157
Rumsfeld was called back to Washington in August 1974 to serve as the transition chairman for Gerald Ford, after Nixon resigned as president in the aftermath of the Watergate affair. He had been Ford's confidant since his days in the House, long before Ford was House minority leader and was one of the "Young Turks" party that played a key role in bringing Ford to Republican leadership in the House of Representatives. Following Ford's selection of General Alexander Haig to be the new Supreme Allied Commander Europe, as the new president arrived in, Ford named Rumsfeld White House Chief of Staff. Rumsfeld served from 1974 to 1975.
