Former Defense Secretary, Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88 — Transcript

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1. 0:07BREAKING NEWS. THE DEATH OF
2. 0:08FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY
3. 0:08DONALD RUMSFELD GREW UP HERE
4. 0:10IN THE CHICAGO AREA. WGN'S
5. 0:12MIKE LOWE IS TAKING A LOOK
6. 0:13BACK LIVE FROM THE LOOP. HI,
7. 0:13MIKE.
8. 0:19>> FLORIDA SUN-RAY. GOOD
9. 0:20EVENING TO BOTH OF YOU. DONALD
10. 0:20RUMSFELD HELD SOME OF THE
11. 0:21HIGHEST POSITIONS OVER A
12. 0:23LENGTHY CAREER IN THE ENTIRE
13. 0:26US GOVERNMENT. BUT PERHAPS IS
14. 0:27BEST REMEMBERED AS THE
15. 0:27ARCHITECT OF THE WARS IN BOTH
16. 0:29IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WARS THAT
17. 0:33DREW THOUSANDS OF PROTESTERS
18. 0:35RIGHT HERE TO DALEY PLAZA.
19. 0:42>> GREAT CITY.
20. 0:43>> DONALD RUMSFELD SPOKE WITH
21. 0:43WGN ABOUT A DECADE AGO AS HE
22. 0:44LOOKED OUT ON HIS OLD
23. 0:45NEIGHBORHOOD. LINCOLN PARK.
24. 0:48>> OH, MY GOODNESS. YOU I WAS
25. 0:49BORN HERE GREW UP HERE WENT
26. 0:49PRAYER. WENT TO SKOKIE SCHOOL
27. 0:51IN WINNETKA.
28. 0:55>> HE GREW UP IN WINNETKA
29. 0:56GRADUATED FROM NEW TRIER HIGH
30. 0:56SCHOOL IN 1950 WHERE HE WAS
31. 0:59THE CAPTAIN OF THE WRESTLING
32. 1:01TEAM. IT PREPARED HIM FOR THE
33. 1:02CONTACT SPORT OF POLITICS
34. 1:05WHICH HE ENTERED AFTER
35. 1:05GRADUATING FROM PRINCETON AND
36. 1:07THEN SERVING IN THE NAVY AS A
37. 1:11FIGHTER PILOT BY THE AGE OF
38. 1:1230. HE WAS ELECTED AS A
39. 1:13CONGRESSMAN FROM ILLINOIS
40. 1:15AFTER 4 TERMS IN OFFICE, HE
41. 1:15LEFT TO BECOME AN ADVISER TO
42. 1:19PRESIDENT NIXON WHEN NIXON
43. 1:20RESIGNED. HE LED THE
44. 1:21TRANSITION TO THE GERALD FORD
45. 1:23ADMINISTRATION WHERE HE SERVED
46. 1:23AS CHIEF OF STAFF AND THEN IN
47. 1:271975 AT JUST 43 YEARS OLD. HE
48. 1:30WAS TAPPED TO BECOME THE
49. 1:31YOUNGEST EVER SECRETARY OF
50. 1:34DEFENSE NEARLY A QUARTER
51. 1:35CENTURY LATER, THE COMBATIVE
52. 1:36AND COLORFUL WASHINGTON
53. 1:37INSIDER WOULD HAVE A SECOND
54. 1:42ACT.
55. 1:43>> YOU HAVE A CAN OF BULLIES
56. 1:43ATTITUDE TOWARDS THIS IS THE
57. 1:45PERSON WITH TEARS AND HIS VIEW
58. 1:46OF THE WORLD AND THAT THAT
59. 1:51SETS THE TONE FOR EVERYTHING
60. 1:52ELSE. A CLOSE ALLY OF THEN
61. 1:53VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY. HE
62. 1:53AT AGE 74.
63. 1:56>> BECAME THE OLDEST EVER
64. 1:57SECRETARY OF DEFENSE. HE WAS
65. 2:00IN THE PENTAGON DURING THE
66. 2:00ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER 11TH.
67. 2:02>> FEELING THE PENTAGON.
68. 2:08AIRPLANE FILLED WITH INNOCENT
69. 2:09PEOPLE CRASHED INTO THE
70. 2:11BUILDING. SECRETARY RUMSFELD'S
71. 2:11FIRST INSTINCT WAS TO RUN
72. 2:12TOWARD DANGER. I DID. AND WENT
73. 2:17BACK IN THE OFFICE AND. AND
74. 2:19BEGAN THE PROCESS OF. SORTING
75. 2:24THROUGH WHAT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
76. 2:26NEXT? WHAT HAPPENED NEXT WAS
77. 2:27THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE 2
78. 2:30CONTROVERSIAL CONFLICTS IN
79. 2:31AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ.
80. 2:36>> RUMSFELD SPOKE AT NEWT REAR
81. 2:36ON THAT TRIP HOME YEARS AGO.
82. 2:37AND WHEN STUDENTS THERE HAS TO
83. 2:38ABOUT TORTURE AT THE PRISON IN
84. 2:40GUANTANAMO BAY. HE DENIED THAT
85. 2:42IT HAPPENED. WHAT DO YOU TELL
86. 2:43A KID WHO ASKS ABOUT.
87. 2:47>> JARRETT PAYTON: GUANTANAMO
88. 2:47BAY, A RENDITION OR WATER
89. 2:48BOARDING OF THE TRUTH. WE BUT
90. 2:55PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST
91. 2:55PRISONS IN THE WORLD. AND IT'S
92. 2:56VERY WELL RUN.
93. 3:01>> THE NO ONE WAS
94. 3:02WATERBOARDED. BUT PROFESSOR
95. 3:02IAN HEARD OF NORTHWESTERN
96. 3:03UNIVERSITY SAYS TORTURE WILL
97. 3:05FOR EVER STAIN RUMSFELD'S
98. 3:07LEGACY. BUT IT WAS HE WHO
99. 3:09PERSONALLY AUTHORIZED
100. 3:10TORTURING PEOPLE.
101. 3:15>> BY SIGNING THE MEMOS THAT
102. 3:16ESSENTIALLY DECLARED THAT
103. 3:16TORTURE WAS NO LAWFUL FOR THE
104. 3:22U.S. MILITARY. THAT'S A BIG
105. 3:23BURDEN FOR ONE PERSON TO
106. 3:23CARRY. I THINK IT'S IT STICKS
107. 3:24TO HIS LEGACY. VERY CLOSELY.
108. 3:26HE WAS THE DEFENDANT IN THE
109. 3:27SUPREME COURT CASE COME VERSUS
110. 3:28RUMSFELD.
111. 3:35>> AND RUMSFELD DIED TODAY IN
112. 3:36NEW MEXICO AT THE AGE OF 88.
113. 3:37THE CAUSE WAS MULTIPLE
114. 3:40MYELOMA, A CANCER THAT ATTACKS
115. 3:40BLOOD PLASMA TODAY. FORMER
116. 3:43PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH ISSUED
117. 3:44A STATEMENT CALLING RUMSFELD A
118. 3:46DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT WHO
119. 3:47VOTE NEVER FLINCHED FROM
120. 3:48RESPONSIBILITY. REP