Thursday, April 11, 2019

The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld

The Unknown 

As we know, 
There are known knowns. 
There are things we know we know. 
We also know 
There are known unknowns. 
That is to say 
We know there are some things 
We do not know. 
But there are also unknown unknowns, 
The ones we don't know 
We don't know. 

Department of Defense news briefing Feb. 12, 2002

Just one small sample of the lyrical stylings of the great for Secretary of Defense. 

The "poem" has also been set to music. Pure genius!

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