Editing Donald Rumsfeld (section)

==Affiliation history==
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===Institutional affiliations===
[[File:Donald Rumsfeld.jpg|thumb|309x309px|Rumsfeld's official portrait in 2001]]

* [[Center for Security Policy]]: longtime associate; winner of the CSP's 1998 "Keeper of the Flame" award (5)
* [[Hoover Institution]]: former member, board of trustees
* [[Project for the New American Century]]: signed PNAC's founding statement of principles as well as two policy letters on Iraq
* [[Freedom House]]: former board member
* [[RAND Corporation]]: former chairman
* [[Committee for the Free World]]: former chairman
* [[National Park Foundation]]: former member<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* [[Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships]]: former chairman<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* [[Le Cercle]]: member<ref>{{Cite web |last=CURTIS |first=MATT KENNARD, MARK |date=2021-12-09 |title=Secret 'CIA-funded' group linked to UK ministers |url=https://www.declassifieduk.org/secret-cia-funded-group-linked-to-uk-ministers/ |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Declassified Media Ltd |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Bohemian Club]]: member
* [[Alfalfa Club]]: member
* [[National Academy of Public Administration (United States)|National Academy of Public Administration]]: member<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />

===Government posts, panels, and commissions===
* Secretary of Defense (2001–06)
* U.S. Commission to Assess National Security Space Management and Organization: chairman (2000)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* U.S. Trade Deficit Reviews Commission: member (1999–2000)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* [[Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States]]: chairman (1998)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* National Commission on Public Service: member (1987–1990)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* [[National Economic Commission]]: member (1988–1989)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* President Reagan's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control: member (1982–1986)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* U.S. Joint Advisory Commission on U.S./Japan Relations: member (1983–1984)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* Presidential Envoy to the Middle East, Reagan administration (1983–1984)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* Presidential Envoy on the [[Law of the Sea Treaty]], Reagan administration (1982–1983)<ref name="U.S. Department of Defense" />
* Secretary of Defense (1975–77)
* [[White House Chief of Staff]] in [[Ford administration]] (1974–75)
* [[U.S. Ambassador to NATO]] (1973–74)
* [[U.S. Congress]]: [[U.S. Representative|Representative]] from [[Illinois]] (1962–69)
* [[United States Navy]]: Various posts, including aviator (1954–57); reserves (1957–1975); retired as a navy captain (1989)

===Corporate connections and business interests===
* [[Eastern Air Lines]]: former director – The annual reports of Eastern Air Lines disclose that Donald Rumsfeld was a member of Eastern Air Lines board of directors.
* [[Gilead Sciences]]: Joined Gilead as a director in 1988, chairman (1997–2001)
* [[General Instrument]]: chairman and CEO (1990–93)
* [[G. D. Searle & Company]]: CEO/chairman/president (1977–1985)
* [[Gulfstream Aerospace]]: director
* [[Tribune Company]]: director
* Metricom: director
* [[Sears]]: director
* [[ABB]]: director
* [[Kellogg's]]: director 1985–1999 while [[Carlos Gutierrez]] (ex Cuba 1960) was president, CEO and chairman of Kellogg until named Secretary of Commerce under Bush from 2005.
* [[RAND Corporation]]: chairman of the board from 1981 to 1986; 1995–1996
* [[Amylin Pharmaceuticals]]: director

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File:Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General George S. Brown at a press conference in the Pentagon.jpg|[[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] Donald Rumsfeld and [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]] General [[George Scratchley Brown|George S. Brown]] at [[The Pentagon]], January 15, 1976
File:President Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev - NARA - 7162534 (crop).jpg|Soviet leader [[Leonid Brezhnev]], President Ford and Rumsfeld in [[Vladivostok]], [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic|Russian SFSR]], Soviet Union, November 1974
File:Defense.gov News Photo 040323-F-6655M-225.jpg|[[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] Donald Rumsfeld with [[Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff|Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff]] General [[Richard Myers|Richard B. Myers]] and [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense|Deputy Secretary of Defense]] [[Paul Wolfowitz]] testifying before the [[9/11 Commission]] in March 2004
File:Defense.gov News Photo 051024-F-5586B-016.jpg|Rumsfeld and [[Victoria Nuland]] at the [[Ukraine–NATO relations|NATO-Ukraine]] consultations in Vilnius, Lithuania, on October 24, 2005 
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===Education===
* Princeton University: A.B. (1954)<!-- Princeton University uses the Latin form: "Artium Baccalaureus" -->