Rumsfeld biograher Midge Decter observed that, by 2002, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had become a bona fide sex symbol. He was called a "virtual rock star" on CNN, a "babe magnet" on Fox, and "Rumstud" -- by president George W. Bush.

[Rummy was also named (in the December 2, 2002, issue of People magazine) one of the world's sexiest men.]

[Rummy often worked standing up at a tall writing table -- "as if," one observer remarked, "energy, or perhaps determination, might begin to leak away from too much sitting down."]