We are talking about some overblown shthead who makes crazy pronouncements to the tune of Rummy Rumsfeld.
"I'd rather surround myself with sharp young minds than play golf and gin rummy all day, " he says.
Nostalgia pervades Parsi clubs, where elderly ladies play rummy in faded English dresses.
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You let winners run and discard laggards like you were playing gin rummy.
Andrew Rosen's father was a bombastic character who played gin rummy with William Holden and pretty much invented designer jeans.
His mother, along with his sister, is the nightly host of games of kalooki, a rummy variant not unlike Brooklyn-style canasta.
But one day she came onto the veranda, where he was having tea with a lady friend and innocently playing rummy.
Playing rummy for small stakes with whoever was the dummy in the bridge game, she cheated, and, when caught, laughed and denied it.
In 2001, Laird sent a copy of that statement to the man he still calls Rummy, as he recalled in an interview this week.
At first, it was a somewhat tepid presidential endorsement, largely offset by off-the-record statements suggesting National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice would be happy to see Rummy go.
Mr. MELVIN LAIRD (Former Secretary of Defense): Rummy - I talked to Rummy last night, and Rummy does not feel that he is worn out in any way.
Nobody is more identified with America's bellicose response than Rummy.
But the grudge match between Powell and Rummy is one of the few dependable leitmotivs of the second Bush presidency--though the rivalry harks back to the first Bush.
What's different this time is that Rummy and Powell are engaging in it at the very moment when the principles of U.S. foreign policy are up for grabs.
It is a cheap shot to denounce Rummy for answering as he did when, to the best of his knowledge, the Army was doing everything humanly possible to meet the current needs.
What about Rummy the war leader?
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