Secretary Rumsfeld conducts a news briefing on the terrorist attack of the Pentagon.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (center) conducts a news briefing on the terrorist attack of the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. Army Secretary Thomas White (left), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry H. Shelton (2nd from left), Sen. John Warner (2nd from right), R-Va., and Sen. Carl Levin (right), D-Mich., joined Rumsfeld in the briefing in the Pentagon.