Posted on 10/23/2003 10:24:13 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:09:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said yesterday that he is under no pressure from the White House to fire Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, despite President Bush's public distancing of himself from the general's remarks about Islam.
"I personally have not had any communication on the subject with the White House," Mr. Rumsfeld said in an interview at the Pentagon with editors and reporters from The Washington Times. "The only one who has talked to the White House on this subject is from a press standpoint."
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