Despite his resignation yesterday the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was at Kansas State University today. Rumsfeld was the 146th speaker in K-State's Landon Lecture Series.

A standing ovation welcomes Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to K-State's Landon Lecture, literally hours after his resignation.

"I hope all of you appreciate how I have managed the publicity for this lecture," says a laughing Rumsfeld, outgoing Secretary of Defense.

The joke is one of the few references the audience hears regarding his resignation. Instead Rumsfeld spends his lecture explaining the difficulty of the war in Iraq.

"We’re engaged in a new and unfamiliar war that is, even today, not well understood. It's a struggle that will require all of us to think and act differently than we have in other conflicts," says Rumsfeld.

He says it's meant teaching our military to do things differently.

"Our military was organized trained and equipped largely for conventional warfare not asymmetric or irregular warfare. It’s not easy for Americans to teach and assist, while others act and do," says Rumsfeld.

The audience members listened politely to Secretary Rumsfeld’s speech, but in the end, were disappointed by what they didn't hear.

"I agree with a lot of things he said, but I thought he was going to say some more about some other stuff, as far as his resigning," says Capt. Onwe Ivory, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.

"I wish he would've spoken more about his resignation and how he felt about that situation," says Hannah Hartsig, KSU freshman.

Instead he offered thanks for playing a role in an important time in our history and says the long struggle will one day be won. After the speech Rumsfeld attended a ceremony to rename K-State's Military Science Building as General Richard B. Myers Hall.