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Excerpt:
"We move on to some photographs. DHR in his Princeton-graduation photo, DHR on a unicycle, DHR with Gerald Ford in bedroom slippers. And a really creepy shot of DHR's face on a shooting target in Iraq. "These were found in the terrorist training camp," he explains. "Before the war even started, they were there."
With you as the target?
"Yeah. When we conquered Baghdad, we went into this terrorist training camp and this was their target, all over the place. They were using these."
Didn't that freak you out?
A loud belly laugh. "There are so many things that should freak me out!" Then, a straight face. "No. Not really."
Rummy collects his papers and memos and stuffs them into his old, beat-up leather briefcase. (He's had it since 1977.) Then he gathers up the newspapers and offers them to me. In return I toss him the New York Post, the only paper he hasn't devoured today.
On the cover: Paris Hilton, just released from jail. He reads the headline—V-D DAY!—and cracks up. Then he starts to read the story.
Suddenly, the quizzical Rumsfeldian look.
"Sweetheart?" he says to his wife. "What's a hair extension?"
"It's a very big thing right now," says Joyce. "I just learned about it three weeks ago."
Rummy looks on in horror as she describes—quite accurately—how it is done.
"Hmmmph," he says.
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