daughter, Marcy.

But later that year, Dennison, having decided on a comeback effort, appealed to Rumsfeld to help run another campaign. Reluctantly, Rumsfeld agreed, only to witness his candidate again go down in defeat, unable to overcome the coattails effect in Ohio of the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy. "I remember seeing Rumsfeld when he was helping Dennison in Ohio, and he was complaining there were Kennedys all over the place," Kinnaird said. "He gave me the impression it was an uphill battle against those glamorous types."

After Dennison's second disappointing loss, Rumsfeld moved with Joyce and their two daughters back to the Chicago area to bide his time until his own run for political office. While in Ohio, he had enrolled at Case Western Reserve University to continueRumsfeld could be downright genial, particularly around longtime associate Bernard Windon, a former Searle executive who had managed Rumsfeld's exploratory presidential bid and then joined Rumsfeld at GI. Open and friendly by nature, Windon had an easygoing relationship with Rumsfeld and knew how to maneuver around Rumsfeld's rough edges. "You could see, in the relationship that existed between Don and Bernie, that Don wasn't this aloof monster he was often held out to be," observed Rick Friedland, GI's top financial officer and one of the few  senior executives who stayed on the corporate staff after the purchase by Forstmann Little. "When Bernie was in the room for a staff meeting or other discussion, it just eased the conversation."

As he had with the Searle family when he ran