DONALD RUMSFELD

The Atlantic: Rumsfeld's Roots:
James Mann talks about the political evolution and influences of Donald Rumsfeld

Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger once wrote, is "a special Washington
phenomenon: the skilled full-time politician-bureaucrat in whom
ambition, ability, and substance fuse seamlessly." "Young Rumsfeld" (October
Atlantic), James Mann's examination of the future Secretary of
Defense's tenure in the Nixon Administration, shows Rumsfeld at a time when these
three qualities had not yet quite fused, when Rumsfeld found himself
restlessly searching for- and never quite achieving-the kind of
position he wanted within the Administration.