APPENDIX A: RUMSFELD’S TIMELINE

1932 Born, Chicago, Illinois
1946–50 New Trier High School
1950–54 Princeton University (B.A.)
1954 Married Marion Joyce Pierson
1954–57 United States Navy service as a naval aviator, a flight instructor, and an instructor of flight instructors
1957–75 U.S. Naval Reserve
1957–59 Administrative Assistant for Congressman David Dennison (R-OH)
1959 Staff Assistant to Congressman Robert Griffith (R-MI)
1960–61 Broker, A. G. Becker & Co. investment bank, Chicago
1962–69 Elected to U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois’s 13th Congressional District; reelected 1964, 1966, 1968
1969–70 Director, Office of Economic Opportunity, Assistant to President Nixon, Member of the President’s Cabinet ...

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