Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

" Bush defended his secretary throughout and responded by stating that Rumsfeld is "exactly what is needed". citing the use of chemical weapons.

Rumsfeld reluctantly accepted an appointment by President Richard Nixon to head the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969; appointed Counselor by Nixon and entitled to Cabinet-level status he would also head up the Economic Stabilization Program before being appointed Ambassador to NATO. Bush.