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==Resignation==
==Resignation==
Rumsfeld resigned on 18 December 2006 after a number of retired generals called for his resignation.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/washington/14military.html?_r=1</ref>
Rumsfeld resigned on 18 December 2006 after Democrats won the House and Senate by campaigning against the war and Rumsfeld's handling of the war in Iraq. A number of retired generals, including [[George Soros]] associated Gen. Clark, had called for his resignation.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/washington/14military.html?_r=1</ref>
When he began his first term as defense secretary, he was the youngest person in U.S. history to hold that position; when he left office at the end of his second term, he was the oldest.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Graham, Bradley. ''By His Own Rules'' (2009), 803 pp. the best of the journalistic biographies
* Graham, Bradley. ''By His Own Rules'' (2009), 803 pp. the best of the journalistic biographies