This is why it's so cool to post stuff, a point I keep making to Esquire
Here's an email I get from a reporter:
Just read it -- feels v . accurate to me, and I've been covering the guy daily for 5 years. A little clarity on the Joyce Rumsfeld life story book anecdote: Rummy put together a picture book of Joyce's activities in the wake of 9/11 and gave it to her for Valentines Day in 2003 (I think -- they had a dinner for pentagon reporters right before the war). The book was on the coffee table and she told us he said upon presenting it, everyone knows what I did after 9/11, but no one (or our grandchildren?) knows what you did, or something to that effect. The story has been told a lot, like telephone. . .but I think that's the accurate version -- the book, which I flipped through, really is lovely. It might have been an anniversary gift, but Valentines Day sticks in my head for some reason.
At any rate, good work. I learned things from you!
As Paul Harvey says, the rest of the story!
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