Donald Rumsfeld: Statesman, Poet?

Slate features a heretofore unappreciated side to Donald Rumsfeld: his poetry. OK, so they’re just taking excerpts from some of his more obtuse comments during press conferences, but it’s still funny. Here’s an example:

The Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld - poetAs we know,

There are known knowns.

There are things we know we know.

We also know

There are known unknowns.

That is to say

We know there are some things

We do not know.

But there are also unknown unknowns,

The ones we don’t know

We don’t know.

Very deep.

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