Rumsfeld
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noun
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The following year, he met Donald H. Rumsfeld, who had recently been appointed to helm President Richard Nixon’s anti-poverty office.
From Salon
Under Rumsfeld’s patronage, Cheney’s ascent to power began.
From Salon
Much of that approach and his appetite for power were formed during Richard Nixon’s presidency, when the White House chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, recruited him as deputy.
From Slate
After Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford, his successor, nominated Rumsfeld as secretary of defense, Cheney moved up as chief of staff—at age 34, the youngest ever.
From Slate
After Ford lost to Jimmy Carter in 1976, Rumsfeld went off to the corporate world, emerging occasionally to chair special commissions on policy.
From Slate
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