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    • Friday, 27 August, 2021
      FT Swamp Notes
      The known known of Rumsfeld’s legacy Premium content

      The former defence secretary corrupted America’s highest ideals and damaged its national interest

    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      Demetri Sevastopulo
      My travels with Donald Rumsfeld

      The supremely confident former US defence secretary had charm but never admitted blame

    • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
      Obituary
      Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, 1932-2021

      Two-time Pentagon chief and Washington veteran was leading advocate of 2003 Iraq invasion

    • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
      Ex-US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies aged 88

      Pentagon chief during 2003 Iraq war served Republican presidents from Nixon to George W Bush

    • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
      Global InsightEdward Luce
      US sets course for its next Middle Eastern war of choice

      Dick Cheney’s heirs are laying the groundwork for an Iran conflict

    • Wednesday, 22 August, 2018
      The Art of PersuasionSam Leith
      When Donald Trump’s ‘truth isn’t truth’ we have a quibble

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      Gary Silverman
      How Richard Nixon helped me love America

      The 37th US president’s fall from power was a civics lesson like no other for people of my age

    • Thursday, 20 March, 2014
      Life & Arts
      The Unknown Known – film review

      Donald Rumsfeld scrambles his words in Errol Morris’s beguiling documentary

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      No Higher Honour

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