The Unknown Known

Why is this man smiling?

2013·1h 42m·★ 6.8

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Former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Standard sit-down · 1h 42m

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