Updated 6/30/2021 3:59 PM
Donald Rumsfeld, former Chief of Staff, Defense Secretary and Representative of Illinois 13th Congressional District has died at the age of 88. U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his office in Washington, D.C. Aug. 13, 1976.
Associated Press President Gerald Ford and presidential assistant Donald Rumsfeld huddle over bills during work session at Vail, Colorado, Dec. 24, 1974. The president is spending a working holiday at this ski resort with his family. He signed 15 bills into law and vetoed two.
Associated Press Daily Herald file photo, 1966Rep. Donald Rumsfeld talks with editors of Paddock Publications in Oct. of 1966 Daily Herald file photo, 1965Donald Rumsfeld (front right) was in town to receive an award presented by the Illinois Retail Merchants Assn, in Dec. 1965