WaPo Pentagon Correspondent Pens Rumsfeld Book

WaPo Magazine will feature exclusive excerpts from the book “Decline and Fall: The final days of Donald Rumsfeld’s troubled reign” by Pentagon correspondent Bradley Graham.

He reveals Rumsfeld was ready to leave President Bush’s administration in 2006:

Around September 2006, Rumsfeld and his wife, Joyce, had discussed the prospect of his stepping down as Secretary of Defense. “We said there’s no way he would stay if either the House or the Senate went Democratic because he would be the issue,” Joyce recounted months later.

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