Rumsfeld denies he plans to step down

"WASHINGTON: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Thursday he has no plans to retire, denying a newspaper report that he is expected to quit early next year.

The New York Daily News said White House officials were telling associates that Rumsfeld, 73, was expected to quit soon after a new government is formed in Iraq. “Those reports have been flying around since about four months after I assumed my post,” Rumsfeld said after a meeting with members of Congress. “I have no plans to retire.” The denial was unusually blunt for Rumsfeld who typically brushes off such questions by saying he serves at the pleasure of the president. The Daily News said Gordon England, the acting deputy secretary of defence, was the top contender to replace Rumsfeld but there was also speculation that the post could go to Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat."
Daily Times

I went searching for this because I heard those rumors this morning and then I was away from the computer all day.