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RUMSFELD OUT!

WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned today, just hours after the Republican party suffered a resounding defeat in nationwide mid-term elections, a vote that became a referendum on President Bush's strategy for the war in Iraq and on Rumsfeld's own stormy stewardship of the Pentagon.

President Bush announced Rumsfeld's departure during a news conference and said he had nominated former CIA Director Robert Gates as his next secretary of defense. Rumsfeld and the Pentagon declined to comment on the decision.