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...Chicago real estate man, Rumsfeld attended the New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., gaining renown as a 150-lb. state wrestling champion. He won a scholarship to Princeton, married his high school sweetheart Joyce Pierson, and from 1954 to 1957 was a Navy pilot. Leaving the service as a lieutenant (j.g.), he became a congressional aide-and struck up a friendship with Michigan Representative Jerry Ford. In 1962 Rumsfeld began his own political career by winning the safe Republican congressional seat on Chicago's wealthy North Shore...
...Rumsfeld was brash and inexperienced when he came here," recalls a Democratic colleague. "But he immediately started growing, and he never stopped. He was a first-rate Congressman." In 1965 Rumsfeld helped lead the "young Turks" who deposed Indiana's Charles Halleck as House Minority Leader. In his place they installed Ford. Says a Democratic Congressman hyperbolically: "Rumsfeld held the dagger that Ford plunged into Halleck's back...
...Rumsfeld campaigned extensively for Nixon in 1968 and a year later resigned from Congress at the President's request to become head of the Office of Economic Opportunity. His assignment was to dismantle the organization and its "Great Society" programs, but before he could, Nixon made him a top White House aide in 1970. Three years later the President named Rumsfeld U.S. Ambassador to NATO, where he worked with characteristic vigor, although his chores were largely routine and ceremonial...
Since becoming chief of the White House staff shortly after Ford rose to the presidency, Rumsfeld has been in the middle of some bitter feuds. He won a power struggle against Robert Hartmann, Ford's longtime top aide and political adviser; Hartmann is now confined largely to speechwriting. Rumsfeld also clashed with Vice President Rockefeller over staff assignments, and Rocky's men suspect that he induced Campaign Chief Howard Callaway to call the Vice President a liability to the ticket for 1976. In addition, Rumsfeld has long been uneasily at odds with Henry Kissinger, feeling that...
When he can get away from the White House, Rumsfeld, a devoted family man, spends almost all his time with his wife and their children-Valerie, 19, Marcy, 15, and Nicholas, 8. Ever since Mrs. Rumsfeld complained that he was dropping $100 a month in the White House mess, Rumsfeld has been lunching on a brown-bagged sandwich brought from home. He has no substantial personal wealth, and Mrs. Rumsfeld works in a Georgetown dress shop, the Dorcas Hardin shop, to help with family finances. One advantage of the new Cabinet post is that he will get a raise, from...