Rumsfeld has set up a website with links to declassified documents and other material that back up what he says in the book. Not all these are memos to the president. He’s put up an 18-page autobiography he wrote in 1945, when he was 13, for instance. It’s written with the same sort of dogged thoroughness that Rumsfeld brings to his adult endeavors. We learn that he and some other boys once burned up half a field playing with matches, and that the first time his picture was in the paper was when he was toddler and a lifeguard saved him from drowning at the beach.
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