Biography

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U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (2001-2005), under President George W. Bush.

Scholar, "American Enterprise Institute".

Former president, "The World Bank".

[on experiencing 9/11 in the Pentagon]: We were having a meeting in my office. Someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then we turned on the television and we started seeing the shots of the second plane hitting, and this is the way I remember it. It's a little fuzzy. There didn't seem to be much to do about it immediately and we went on with whatever the meeting was. Then the whole building shook. I have to confess my first reaction was an earthquake. I didn't put the two things together in my mind. Rumsfeld did instantly.