From today's NYT, on Rumsfeld's self-defense:

He recalled that, during his first tenure as defense secretary during the Ford administration, he had decided to fit the M1 Abrams battle tank with a turbine engine and a 120 millimeter cannon, overriding the Army's own choices.

Is this for real? Rumsfeld personally decided to customize the M-1 to his own tastes? Did he have them put in a Blaupunkt, too? Airbrush a chick riding a dragon on the hood? Or is this an "I invented the internet" moment?