Rumsfeld blames Bush low ratings on the failures of our history teachers
"I think the biggest problem we've got in the country is people don't study history anymore. People who go to school in high schools and colleges, they tend to study current events and call it history... There are just too darn few people in our country who study history enough."
"There's never been a popular war. You can't name a popular war. There isn't such a thing."
"George Washington was almost fired."
"The Civil War was the ugliest thing -- carnage. 10,000, 15,000 people killed in a battle."
"Same thing in World War II... Franklin Roosevelt was one of the most hated people in the country and he was President of the United States. He was Commander-in-Chief. He did a terrific job."