The Associated Press
December 4, 2004, 9:27 AM EST
WASHINGTON -- Overcoming criticism about his handling of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has won a strong vote of confidence from President Bush and will remain at the Pentagon.
It settles one of the last major questions about who goes and who stays in the second-term Cabinet.
Rumsfeld's future was sealed in an Oval Office meeting with Bush on Monday but not announced until Friday.