Editing Donald Rumsfeld (section)

===Presidential and vice-presidential aspirations===
During the [[1976 Republican National Convention]], Rumsfeld received one vote for Vice President of the United States, although he did not seek the office, and the nomination was easily won by Ford's choice, Senator [[Bob Dole]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1976-09-20 |title=Tally on Vice President |pages=13 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/122616318 |access-date=2022-09-11|id={{ProQuest|122616318}} }}</ref> During the [[1980 Republican National Convention]] he again received one vote for vice president.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Milton |first=Raleigh E. |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_republican-national-convention-proceedings_july-14-17-1980/page/492/mode/2up?view=theater&q=rumsfeld |title=Official Report of the Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Republican National Convention |publisher=Republican National Committee |year=1980 |pages=492–494}}</ref>

Rumsfeld briefly sought the presidential nomination [[1988 United States presidential election|in 1988]], but withdrew from the race before [[Partisan primary|primaries]] began.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Oreskes |first=Michael |date=1988-11-21 |title=Campaign's Over? No, It Just Started |pages=B17 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/21/us/campaign-s-over-no-it-just-started.html |access-date=2022-09-11}}</ref> During the [[1996 United States presidential election|1996 election]] season, he initially formed a [[presidential exploratory committee]], but declined to formally enter the race. He was instead named national chairman for Republican nominee [[Bob Dole]]'s campaign.<ref>{{cite web |author=AmericaLive |url-status=dead |url=http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-521030 |title=Donald Rumsfeld Biography |work=[[iReport]] |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=November 2, 2010|access-date=April 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528031323/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-521030 |archive-date=May 28, 2015}}</ref>