Donald Rumsfeld passed and I have come to know of a strange connection. Anyone 'in' ? (Page 1/1)
rinselberg
JUL 01, 09:42 AM
What kind of a connection could you imagine between the storied abolitionist Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895) and the newly late Donald Rumsfeld, who passed away on Wednesday--the only person who has ever been Secretary of Defense and then, many years later, having that office again, as a considerably older man?
Leave it to MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to come up with this:
In a hurry? Here's your SPOILER. Rachel Maddow revisits the story of Frederick Douglass being sent by his slave owner to a "slave breaker" to be made docile and have his will broken. The location of the horrific torture that entailed was a plantation called "Mount Misery" (in Baltimore) and at least one person was untroubled enough by its history to purchase it as a country home--that would be the late Donald Rumsfeld, when he was Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration, from 2001 to 2006.
Rachel Maddow emphasizes that the home was still known very publicly as "Mount Misery" when Rumsfeld made it his country home for his sanctuary away from the District of Columbia. Click to show
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