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6. Rumsfeld to Andy Card, “Presidential Appointment Process,” December 1, 2005; “Summary of Time Lapse Data in the Senate Confirmation Process for PAS Appointees Since the Beginning of the Administration,” February 18, 2004.
7. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with the Chiefs 1/23/01, my 2nd day,” May 21, 2001.
8. Rumsfeld, handwritten note, February 6, 2001.
9. George W. Bush, remarks, “A Period of Consequences,” The Citadel, South Carolina, September 23, 1999.
10. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” May 31, 2001.
11. Department of Defense, preface, Quadrennial Defense Review Report, February 6, 2006.
12. Rumsfeld, “The DoD Challenge,” June 25, 2001.
13. Steve/John Young to Chairman Ted Stevens, “FY 77 vs. FY 01 Authorization and Appropriation Bills,” February 8, 2001.
14. Rumsfeld, “Memorandum,” May 31, 2001.
15. Christopher Duffy, Frederick the Great: A Military Life (New York: Routledge, 1988), p. 301.
16. Rumsfeld, “Characteristics for the Next Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff(CJCS),” April 27, 2001.
17. Rumsfeld to Wolfowitz, “Deployments and Mil-to-Mil,” April 16, 2001; Rumsfeld, “Deployments and Military-to-Military Activities,” April 3, 2001.
18. Rumsfeld to Nixon, “Okinawa,” November 3, 1969.
19. Al-Qaida, fatwa, February 23, 1998.
20. Leigh Sales and Reuters, “Bush Announces Troop Realignment,” Australian Broadcasting Corporation, August 17, 2004; John F. Kerry, “Remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars 105th Annual Convention,” Cincinnati, Ohio, August 18, 2004.
21. Rumsfeld, “Continuing U.S. Government Efforts,” September 7, 2004.
22. Jane Perlez, “Rumsfeld Seeks to Withdraw American Troops from Sinai,” New York Times, April 19, 2001.
23. Rumsfeld to Powell, “Iceland,” July 11, 2001; Rumsfeld to Powell and Rice, “Cost of Iceland,” May 29, 2003.
24. Powell, letter to Rumsfeld, July 12, 2001; Principals Committee, notes from meeting on Iraq, February 6, 2003.
CHAPTER 23 Bears in the Woods
1. Rumsfeld, “Rough Notes on SecDef’s remarks to MoD Ivanov on June 8, 2001,” June 20, 2001.
2. Rumsfeld, “Discussions with Russia,” July 12, 2001.
3. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with President Nixon—1/20/94,” February 3, 1994.
4. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with President Nixon—1/20/94,” February 3, 1994.
5. Rumsfeld, “Discussions with Russia,” July 12, 2001.
6. Rumsfeld, “Rough Notes on SecDef’s remarks to MoD Ivanov on June 8, 2001,” June 20, 2001.
7. Committee of One Million Against the Admission of Communist China to the United Nations, press release, “Dem and GOP Congressmen Call on Rusk to Issue Strong Statement Against Admission of Red China to UN,” October 15, 1965.
8. Memorandum of Conversation, Beijing, November 28, 1974 (U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. XVIII, China, 1973–1976, Document 98).
9. Rumsfeld, “Kissinger’s Thoughts on PRC and Russia,” June 20, 2005.
10. Sun Tzu, The Art of War, translated by Thomas F. Cleary (Boston: Shambhala, 2005), p. 82; Sun Tzu, The Art of War, translated by Samuel B. Griffith (London: Oxford University Press, 1963), p. 83.
11. Rumsfeld, “Some Additional Thoughts on Asia,” February 11, 1998.
12. Rumsfeld, “China and Asia,” February 25, 2001.
13. Rumsfeld, “Meeting with Andy Marshall,” April 17, 2000.
14. Rumsfeld, “China and Asia,” February 25, 2001.
15. Dan Dell’Orto to Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, “EP-3 Incident—Guidance on Legal Issues,” April 6, 2001.
16. Peter Felstead, “‘Inside’ account further exonerates EP-3 Pilot,” janes.com, May 18, 2001.
17. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Briefs on EP-3 Collision,” April 13, 2001.
18. Peter Felstead, “‘Inside’ account further exonerates EP-3 pilot,” janes.com, May 18, 2001.
19. Jennifer H. Svan, “EP-3E crewmembers hold vivid memories of ordeal in China,” Star and Stripes, May 30, 2001.
20. “Chinese FM Spokesman Gives Full Account of Air Collision,” Xinhua News Agency, April 4, 2001.
21. Ambassador Joseph W. Prueher, letter to Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Tang Jiaxuan, April 11, 2001.
CHAPTER 24 The National Security Council
1. National Security