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The Unknown Known

6.82013 · 1h 42m · EN

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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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Donald Rumsfeld

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Kenn Medeiros

Younger Donald Rumsfeld / Secret Service

Errol Morris

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