This article appears in the July/August 2021 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who passed away on June 29, was famous for authoring “snowflakes”—terse, one-page memos he sent while running the Pentagon under two presidents. He would often send as many as 60 snowflakes a day. The Prospect has exclusively unearthed Rumsfeld’s final memos.
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