Honorable Donald Rumsfeld
Rumsfeld Foundation, President
Donald Rumsfeld is president of the Rumsfeld Foundation. He served as U.S. secretary of defense from November 1975 to January 1977 and from January 2001 to December 2006. The following is excerpted from a June 14, 2012, statement during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “The Law of the Sea Convention.” Thirty years ago, President Ronald Reagan asked me to meet with world leaders to represent the United States in opposition to LOS. Our efforts soon found a persuasive supporter in British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Today, as the U.S. Senate again considers approving this flawed agreement, the…
