Editing Donald Rumsfeld (section)

==Retirement and later life (2006–2021)==
[[File:Donald Rumsfeld shares a laugh with Robert Gates.jpg|right|thumb|Rumsfeld shares a laugh with his successor, [[Robert Gates]], at a ceremony to unveil his official portrait as Secretary of Defense, June 25, 2010.]]
[[File:Pentagon Memorial dedication 2008 1st bench.jpg|thumb|Dedication ceremony of the [[Pentagon Memorial]] in 2008]]
[[File:Donald H. Rumsfeld and George W. Bush in 2019 (48718782863).jpg|thumb|Rumsfeld greeting former president [[George W. Bush]] in 2019]]

In the months after his resignation, Rumsfeld toured the New York City publishing houses in preparation for a potential memoir.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nysun.com/national/publishers-abuzz-over-possible-rumsfeld-book/57376/ |first=Gary |last=Shapiro |title=Publishers Abuzz Over Possible Rumsfeld Book |date=June 27, 2007 |work=[[The New York Sun]] |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529145752/https://www.nysun.com/national/publishers-abuzz-over-possible-rumsfeld-book/57376/ |url-status=live }}</ref> After receiving what one industry source labeled "big bids",<ref>{{cite news |title=Rumsfeld Memoir Is Slated for 2010 |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120819442235013215 |date=April 14, 2008 |access-date=July 2, 2021 |agency=Associated Press via Wall Street Journal |archive-date=May 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527002233/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120819442235013215 |url-status=live }}</ref> he reached an agreement with the [[Penguin Group]] to publish the book under its [[Sentinel HC]] imprint.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Deahl |first1=Rachel |title=Sentinel to Publish Rumsfeld Memoir |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-deals/article/44527-sentinel-to-publish-rumsfeld-memoir.html |access-date=July 3, 2021 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=September 20, 2010 |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201020946/http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-deals/article/44527-sentinel-to-publish-rumsfeld-memoir.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rumsfeld declined to accept an [[advance payment|advance]] for the publication of his memoir, and said he was donating all proceeds from the work to veterans groups.<ref name="foundation" /> His book, entitled ''[[Known and Unknown: A Memoir]]'', was released on February 8, 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/node/18175359 |title=Donald Rumsfeld's memoir: Ducking and diving – His study in self-defence |newspaper=The Economist |date=February 17, 2011 |access-date=February 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221190316/http://www.economist.com/node/18175359 |archive-date=February 21, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In conjunction with the publication of ''Known and Unknown'', Rumsfeld established "The Rumsfeld Papers", a website with documents "related to the [[endnotes]]" of the book and his service during the George W. Bush administration;<ref name="website">{{cite web |url=https://www.rumsfeld.com/archives/page/about-the-rumsfeld-archive-2 |title=About the Rumsfeld Archive |website=rumsfeld.com |access-date=June 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111023203730/http://www.rumsfeld.com/library/page/about-the-library |archive-date=October 23, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref> during the months that followed the book's publication, the website was expanded to include over 4,000 documents from his archive. As of June 2011,{{update after|2012|6}} the topics included his Congressional voting record, the Nixon administration, documents and memos of meetings while he was part of the Ford, Reagan, and George W. Bush administrations, private sector documents, and NATO documents, among other items.<ref name="website" />

In 2007, Rumsfeld established The Rumsfeld Foundation, which focuses on encouraging public service in the United States and supporting the growth of free political and free economic systems abroad. The educational foundation provides fellowships to talented individuals from the private sector who want to serve for some time in government.<ref name="foundation">{{cite web|url=https://www.rumsfeldfoundation.org/about |title=About the Rumsfeld Foundation |publisher=Rumsfeld Foundation |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111203085046/http://www.rumsfeldfoundation.org/about/ |archive-date=December 3, 2011}}</ref> Rumsfeld personally financed the foundation.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Michael |last=Duffy |url=http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1623260,00.html |title=Donald Rumsfeld's Next Move |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=May 18, 2007 |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529145738/http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1623260,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> As of January 2014, the foundation had sponsored over 90 fellows from Central Asia, provided over &nbsp;million in tuition and stipend support for graduate students, awarded over &nbsp;million in [[microfinance]] grants, and donated over &nbsp;million to charities for veterans' affairs.{{clarify|date=June 2021 |reason=numbers missing}}<ref>{{cite web|title=2013 Annual Report |url=https://www.rumsfeldfoundation.org/library/doclib/2017/01/20140120_2013AnnualReport.pdf |publisher=Rumsfeld Foundation |access-date=March 26, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327221418/https://www.rumsfeldfoundation.org/doclib/20140120_2013AnnualReport.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2014}}</ref>

Rumsfeld was awarded the "Defender of the Constitution Award" at the 2011 [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 2011.

After his retirement from government, Rumsfeld criticized former fellow Cabinet member [[Condoleezza Rice]], [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], in his memoir, asserting that she was basically unfit for office. In 2011, she responded, saying that Rumsfeld "doesn't know what he's talking about. The reader may imagine what can be correct about the conflicted matter."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html |first=Rachel Rose |last=Hartman |date=April 28, 2011 |title=Condoleezza Rice fires back at 'grumpy' Donald Rumsfeld |agency=[[The Irish Times|The Ticket]]|publisher=[[Yahoo! News]] |access-date=April 28, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307152139/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html |archive-date=March 7, 2012}}</ref>

In February 2011, Rumsfeld endorsed the repeal of the military's "[[Don't ask, don't tell]]" policy, saying that allowing gays and lesbians to openly serve "is an idea whose time has come".<ref>{{cite news|title=Rumsfeld: "Time Has Come" To Allow Gays To Serve Openly|url=http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/rumsfeld-time-has-come-to-allow-gays-to-serve-openly.html|author=Amy Bingham|author2=Steven Portnoy|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=February 11, 2011|access-date=May 29, 2019|archive-date=May 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529145740/http://abcnewsradioonline.com/national-news/rumsfeld-time-has-come-to-allow-gays-to-serve-openly.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In March 2011, Rumsfeld spoke out on the [[2011 military intervention in Libya]], telling [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] Senior White House Correspondent [[Jake Tapper]] that the Obama administration should "recognize the mission has to determine the coalition. The coalition ought not determine the mission." Rumsfeld also used the word "confusion" six times to describe the United Nations-backed military effort in Libya.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rumsfeld-gadhafi-stays-us-reputation-damaged-american-enemies/story?id=13232616|title=Rumsfeld: If Gadhafi Stays, U.S. Reputation Damaged, American Enemies Emboldened|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=March 27, 2011|access-date=July 6, 2020|archive-date=July 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706103245/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rumsfeld-gadhafi-stays-us-reputation-damaged-american-enemies/story?id=13232616|url-status=live}}</ref>

In October 2011, Rumsfeld conducted an interview with [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]]'s Washington, D.C., bureau chief [[Abderrahim Foukara]]. Foukara asked Rumsfeld whether, in hindsight, the Bush administration had sent enough troops into Iraq to secure the borders of the country, and whether that made the United States culpable in the death of innocent Iraqis. Foukara said people in the Pentagon told Rumsfeld the number of troops sent into Iraq was insufficient. Rumsfeld said, "You keep making assertions which are fundamentally false. No one in the Pentagon said they were not enough." Foukara pressed Rumsfeld repeatedly. Rumsfeld then asked, "Do you want to yell or do you want to have an interview?" Foukara then asked, "Do you think the numbers that you went to Iraq with did absolve you from the responsibility of tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis killed by the Coalition and those criminals that you talked about?" Rumsfeld called the question "pejorative" and said Foukara was "not being respectful" (Foukara disagreed) and was "just talking over, and over, and over again".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1011/Rumsfelds_second_Al_Jazeera_interview_less_cordial.html|title=Rumsfeld's second Al Jazeera interview less cordial|work=Politico|date=October 4, 2011|access-date=July 6, 2020|archive-date=July 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706104420/https://www.politico.com/blogs/onmedia/1011/Rumsfelds_second_Al_Jazeera_interview_less_cordial.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/donald-rumsfelds-hate-love-hate-relationship-al-jazeera/337117/|title=Donald Rumsfeld's Hate-Love-Hate-Relationship with Al Jazeera|work=The Atlantic|date=October 4, 2011|access-date=July 6, 2020|archive-date=July 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706060418/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/donald-rumsfelds-hate-love-hate-relationship-al-jazeera/337117/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rumsfeld was the subject of the 2013 [[Errol Morris]] documentary ''[[The Unknown Known]]'', the title a reference to his [[There are known knowns|response to a question at a February 2002 press conference]]. In the film 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".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Unknown Known|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2390962|website=IMDb|date=January 16, 2014|access-date=April 11, 2014|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413123030/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2390962/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2016, in partnership with the literary and creative agency Javelin, which handled design and development,<ref>{{cite news |title=Churchill Solitaire |url=http://javelindc.com/projects/churchill-solitaire/ |agency=Javelin |access-date=August 16, 2017 |archive-date=August 12, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812075921/http://javelindc.com/projects/churchill-solitaire/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Rumsfeld released a [[mobile app]] game of [[Solitaire (game)|solitaire]] called ''Churchill Solitaire'', emulating a variant of the card game as played by [[Winston Churchill]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Hern |first1=Alex |title=Donald Rumsfeld releases solitaire app |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/25/donald-rumsfeld-releases-solitaire-app |date=January 2, 2016 |access-date=January 25, 2016 |archive-date=January 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125115132/http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/25/donald-rumsfeld-releases-solitaire-app |url-status=live }}</ref> Rumsfeld and the Churchill family said that profits from the game would be donated to charity.<ref>{{cite web|title=At 83, I Decided to Develop an App|url=https://medium.com/@DonRumsfeld/at-83-i-decided-to-develop-an-app-dadd4e53d342|date=January 2, 2016|access-date=January 25, 2016|archive-date=January 25, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125151251/https://medium.com/@DonRumsfeld/at-83-i-decided-to-develop-an-app-dadd4e53d342|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Just Released a Video Game |url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-defense-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-just-rele/1100-6434112/ |website=GameSpot |date=January 2, 2016 |access-date=February 8, 2016 |archive-date=January 29, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129144053/http://www.gamespot.com/articles/former-defense-secretary-donald-rumsfeld-just-rele/1100-6434112/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In June 2016, Rumsfeld announced that he would vote for [[Donald Trump]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-rumsfeld-donald-trump-224698|title=Donald Rumsfeld says he's 'clearly' voting for Trump|work=Politico|date=June 22, 2016|access-date=July 6, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217130917/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/donald-rumsfeld-donald-trump-224698|url-status=live}}</ref>

On January 5, 2021, Rumsfeld was one of the ten living former [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretaries of Defense]] that sent a warning letter in order to warn President Trump not to involve the military in a 2020 presidential election dispute.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Defense secretaries' letter warning Trump was signed by all in only 2 days |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/defense-secretaries-letter-warning-trump-signed-days/story?id=75036788 |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>