Rumsfeld

[ruhmz-feld]

noun

1. Donald, 1932–2021, U.S. secretary of defense 1975–77, 2001–06.

Rumsfeld

/ ˈrʌmz-, ˈrʌmsˌfɛlt /

noun

1. Donald (Henry) . born 1932, US Republican politician and businessman: Secretary of Defense (2001–06)

Example Sentences

Donald Rumsfeld once said, in one of his more sage remarks, “There are knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.”

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Donald Rumsfeld, President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, brought Gen. Peter Schoomaker out of retirement to be Army chief of staff.

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Special Operations Command, and Rumsfeld wanted to reorient the Army to emphasize special operations.

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In the 1991 Gulf War, Burkle was senior medical officer at the largest U.S. field medical facility since World War II. More than a decade later, after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he served briefly as that nation’s interim health minister, surviving an assassination attempt before being fired by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

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But well before the invasion, George W. Bush had ordered humanitarian aid shifted from the State Department, where it had always previously been, to the Defense Department under Rumsfeld.

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