Cover detail, "Pieces of Intelligence" by Hart Seely
Rumsfeld Poetry Story aired: Wednesday, July 02, 2003
Donald H. Rumsfeld is the U.S. Secretary of Defense, a former congressman, and as it turns out, a poet, though he doesn't know it.
In the comments of Donald Rumsfeld over the years, writer and humorist Hart Seely heard a Zen master. Now some of Rumsfeld's spoken words are collected in Seely's new book "Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld."