Chapter 8: The Job That Couldn't Be Done

1. Richard Nixon, speech, acceptance of Republican presidential nomination, twenty-ninth Republican National Convention, August 8, 1968.
2. Rumsfeld voting record, "Anti-Poverty--Economic Opportunity Act - HR 11377," 88th Cong., 2d sess., August 8, 1964.
3. Rumsfeld, [No Subject], April 4, 1969.
4. William H. Rehnquist, "Re: Appointment of Congressman to the Office of Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity," April 14, 1969.
5. Jack Anderson, "Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office," Washington Post, September 22, 1969.
6. Jack Anderson, "Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office," Washington Post, September 22, 1969.
7. Rumsfeld, "The Washington Merry-Go-Round Column by Jack Anderson titled: 'Anti-Poverty Czar Embellishes Office' (The Washington Post - Monday, September 22, 1969)," undated.
8. "Scoops On Target and Off," Time, April 3, 1972; "The Case of the O.E.O. Office," New York Times, August 13, 1972.
9. Milton and Rose D. Friedman, Two Lucky People: Memoirs (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 344-45.
10. Eric Wentworth, "OEO Plans Test of Education Vouchers," Washington Post, December 26, 1970.
11. Terry Lenzner, as quoted in Rowan Scarborough, Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004), p. 73.
12. Rumsfeld, letter to Hoover, November 11, 1969.