Hon. Donald Rumsfeld, President, Rumsfeld Foundation and 13th and 21st U.S. Secretary of Defense, poses for a portrait during the 2016 Concordia Summit, where world leader convene to discuss the power of partnerships, at Grand Hyatt New York on Septe Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S.
military but whose legacy largely was defined by his controversial tenure during the long and costly Iraq war, has died, his family said in a statement released Tuesday.