EditorialDefense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 7, 2006. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
EditorialThen Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a hearing in Washington on April 27, 2005. Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense for Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George W. Bush, who presided over America’s Cold War strategies in the 1970s and, in the new world of terrorism decades later, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, died on Tuesday, June 29, 2021, at his home in Taos, N.M. He was 88. The cause was multiple myeloma, said Keith Urbahn, a spokesman for the family. (Stephen Crowley/The New York Times)
EditorialTeresa Leger Fernandez, a Democratic candidate for Congress, meets with Pueblo leaders in Taos Pueblo, N.M., on Jan. 14, 2020. (Ramsay de Give/The New York Times)