Donald Rumsfeld was not a legacy student. He came from a middle-class background as I did, and Princeton must have exposed him to a part of America that was new to him as it was to me—more so to him since I hadn’t let as sheltered a life as he had before he got to Princeton. It probably didn’t take him long to realize that he was smarter than most of the legacy kids and he could outwork all of them. That was no contest. And these things were likely as important for his career as anything else he learned at Princeton. More

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