I was reading the London Times today, and ran across an article about how Spain was asking Bush to rein in Rumsfeld. The article included this little tidbit “The veteran politician, 70, who is the youngest and oldest man to serve as US Defence Secretary, is very much his “own man”, and won cult status for his daily televised briefings during the Afghanistan war.”
Now, I’m used to running into phrases like the above where the meaning is some obscure truth. But this just doesn’t make sense to me.