Fox News Channel reporter Bret Baier has a cool special coming up on Sunday, May 7 at 10pm: "Why He Fights," a one-hour documentary and exclusive interview with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (video preview here.)
Baier's latest Reporter's Notebook gives a neat preview of the special:
In this special, "Why He Fights," we look at not just a day or a week with Rumsfeld, but years of behind-the-scenes video, one-on-one interviews, and his reflections in good times and bad. We hear from his critics, his supporters, and — for the first time — from his wife of 51 years, Joyce Rumsfeld.
In an exclusive interview, Mrs. Rumsfeld speaks out about her 9/11 experience. She shares private stories of Don Rumsfeld at home, offers her assessment of what makes him tick, and talks about watching her husband’s popularity skyrocket and then plummet. On that, Joyce told me before the taping, "The rock star and the goat are the same person. And if you go into these positions knowing that one moment you may be one and the next you'll be the other, that's just the reality of it. If you're doing things, really doing things, it's the reality. And that’s okay. He thinks it’s okay and I think it's okay."
For this special, we sat down with the secretary four separate times and also held an extensive interview with him in Baghdad while walking around the U.S. military headquarters there. You’ll hear Rumsfeld address his critics head-on, and you’ll learn things about him that you never knew.
By now, you have probably already heard about "Rumsfeld’s Rules" — a book of reflections and quotations that Donald Rumsfeld has collected over his five decades of public service. Number 12 on the list is: "It's easier to get into something than to get out." So, I asked the secretary on that walk in Baghdad, "Is that true here?"
He smiled and answered, "Throughout history, it's the people who have persevered and who have been determined and who have had conviction about the path they were on, who have written history. So, yes, it's always easier to get into something than it is to get out of it. On the other hand, it's always easier to do nothing than to do something."
TCG just needs to know one thing. Will there be any footage of the Secretary with his miniature dachshund, Reggie? TCG has a miniature dachshund too and is a sucker for those ridiculous little dogs, and she thinks it's adorable that Secretary Rumsfeld has copped to owning one. Anyway, she'll be keeping her fingers crossed on Sunday.
