Love him or
hate him, Donald Rumsfeld has an incredible career that most of us could only
dream of having as follows:
-US Navy
fighter pilot
-Millionaire
businessman who pioneered things as diverse as non-sugar sweeteners and
flat-screen televisions.
-Confidant
to four US presidents (Nixon, Ford, Bush 1 and Bush 2) He served as Chief of
Staff in Gerald Ford's White House. He was a close friend of former Vice
President Cheney.
-4 terms as
a US congressman.
-2 terms
under different presidents as Secretary of Defense.
Mr. Rumsfeld passed away yesterday at age
88. One obscure aspect of his life caught my attention. Let us begin this story
by going back to the days of slavery in the US. Frederick Douglas was an
extraordinary man who went from slave to famous author. When he was a young
slave, he was rebellious and defiant of his white masters. He was sent to a
house on the Eastern Shore of Maryland for "reeducation." This house
was known as "Mount Misery." While at "Mount Misery,"
Frederick Douglas was beaten and brutalized.
When Donald Rumsfeld worked in Washington,
DC, he looked for a weekend retreat. He had the money to buy literally anything
that he wanted. He bought an estate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland near
Chesapeake Bay. It was the notorious "Mount Misery."
Rumsfeld knew the exact history of the
house. When he moved in, he made no changes to it. Here is a fascinating
article as follows:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mount-misery-frederick-douglass-confronts-donald-rumsfeld
If I had bought the estate, I would have
built a new residence to live in. I would have left the old house standing and
converted it into a museum about the brutality of slavery.
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