Rumsfeld resigned before election
Aug 15, 2007 at 4:54 PM by Political Chase
Republicans are infuriated.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld submitted his letter of resignation on November 6, one day prior to the 2006 mid-term elections.
The letter was dated Nov. 6, the day before voters, angered by Iraq, went to the polls and swept Republicans from power in Congress. According to a stamp on the letter, President George W. Bush saw it on election day.
Bush, however, did not announce that Rumsfeld would leave until the day after the election.
That infuriated some Republicans, who said their party might have kept more seats in Congress and perhaps kept control of the Senate if Rumsfeld had left before the election.
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