The Unknown Known | movie | 2013 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a c | dG1feEdaREdQX3MybWc

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00:00Let me put up this next memo.

00:08You want me to read this?

00:10Yes, please.

00:11All generalizations are false, including this one.

00:17There it is.

00:21Rumsfeld are via Watergate with reputation intact.

00:24Possible vice presidential running mate with President Ford.

00:26The questions about Rumsfeld are whether he's too ambitious playing second fiddle to Reagan.

00:34The credit belongs to people who are carped at and criticized and said, oh my goodness, you're warmongers.

00:39And we need to understand how we got to where we are.

00:42Who do we want to provide leadership in the world?

00:44Somebody else?

00:45When Shakespeare wrote history, the motivating force was character defects, jealousies, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:58Maybe Shakespeare got it wrong.

01:01Maybe he had it right.

01:02Governor Reagan decided to have George Bush to be vice president.

01:10It seems to me that if that decision had gone a slightly different way, you would have been future president of the United States.

01:19That's possible.

01:19How do you think that they got away with 9-11?

01:35It seems amazing in retrospect.

01:38Everything seems amazing in retrospect.

01:42Stuff happens.

01:44Free people are free to make mistakes.

01:46And commit crimes and do bad things.

01:49They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things.

01:54And you have to pick and choose.

01:55Well, to the extent you pick and choose and you're wrong,

01:59the penalty can be enormous.

02:05Subject.

02:06Unknown knows.

02:08That is to say,

02:10things that you think you know,

02:14that it turns out you did not.

02:19You could do it you think you know,

02:36you know,

02:39you could.

02:43You could.

02:45You could.