00:00As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known
00:06unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown
00:12unknowns. The ones we don't know, we don't know.
00:16He has been a singular force in American history, elected to Congress when he was 30 years old, the youngest
00:22secretary of defense ever under Gerald Ford, and then the oldest brought back by the son of a man who
00:28had been his adversary. George H.W. Bush was said to have believed it was Rumsfeld who had pushed him
00:35out of a shot at a national campaign and into the CIA.
00:39What was your estimation of George H.W. Bush?
00:42I never worked for him.
00:43Did you admire him enormously?
00:45No. No. No, I was kind of disappointed in him. He decided he wanted to leave people with the impression
00:51that he didn't want to go to the CIA and that someone made him go there and it was probably
00:55Rumsfeld or something. I didn't find that impressive.
00:58So his son calls you in?
01:01I was amazed. I was amazed. And it shows a lot about George W. Bush, that he's his own man.
01:10General Myers made similar references to the failings of the insurgency, including...
01:17...supporter. And yet, this far into the operations...
01:22When the recommendations initially came out, you had said that you hadn't made changes to that thing.
01:30And the message that many of us...
01:33...missing to make changes to that thing.
01:37I was saying..
02:06I was so surprised.
02:07I had said that I'm going to make changes to that...
02:07I don't know.
02:09I don't know.
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