Donald Rumsfeld, 44, whose 18 years in Government have included stints as a Representative from Illinois, White House chief of staff and, since November 1975, Secretary of Defense:
When I came to Defense, I spent time studying what the Soviet Union had been doing, and the facts then remain the facts today. We are looking at about 15 years of steady, purposeful effort on the part of the Soviet Union [to build up military capability], and ten to 15 years of the U.S., for a variety of reasons, reducing its level of effort. My conclusion was that there was no doubt that...
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