Did Gates Diss Rumsfeld? -- The Cable/Foreign Policy
It's the obligation of each U.S. secretary of defense to make a speech when the portrait of his predecessor is unveiled in the halls of the Pentagon. Defense Secretary Robert Gates's speech Friday, delivered while standing next to former Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, was full of not-so-subtle indications about how Gates views Rumsfeld's stewardship of the Defense Department.
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My Comment: Two different men .... two different styles. I will always remember Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld on 9/11 .... helping with the wounded that were on the grounds of the Pentagon .... and in the following days and months being a consistent face on the news as we all started to gear up for war in Afghanistan.