Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Marine Corps leaders exchanged praise today at a ceremony that transferred command of the service from Gen. Michael Hagee to Gen. James Conway. Under a cloudy sky at the Marine Corps' barracks in Washington, standing at a podium on the parade ground before bleachers packed with VIPs, Rumsfeld paid homage to Hagee, the outgoing Marine Corps commandant. The defense secretary said that under Hagee's watch the Marine Corps had become the "best-trained, the best-led...
