Subject: Rumsfeld stepping down Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:40:45 -0600 Message-ID: <BDD0A3EABE40F04A8C7200805EDE5A6A0585C4D5@PEPSI.uwec.edu> From: "Richmond, Rick" <rrichmon@uwec.edu>
from CNN.com, Wednesday, 11/8/2006:
Rumsfeld stepping down
<http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/08/rumsfeld/index.html>
President Bush announced today that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld,
architect of an unpopular war in Iraq, is stepping down. Bush said he is
nominating former CIA chief Robert Gates, who headed that agency from
1991 until 1993, to become the next secretary of defense.