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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will remain in charge of the Pentagon. That lets President-elect Obama fulfill his pledge to include a Republican in his cabinet, although Gates isn't registered as one. Gates has also won wide bipartisan support for his role in restoring comity and common sense to a military establishment polarized and politicized ... Read More
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Feb. 12, 2009 | By MARK THOMPSONIn his two years as Defense Secretary, Robert Gates has earned high marks for candor and common sense. But curbing the Pentagon's appetite for expensive new weapons could be his biggest challenge yet
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Apr. 7, 2009'I would say we're not prepared to do anything about it.' ROBERT GATES, U.S. Defense Secretary, on North Korea's plan to launch a missile by April 8 'This crisis was caused by the irrational behavior of white people with blue eyes.' LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA, Brazilian President, on the recession, saying he didn't know ...
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Mar. 5, 2009 | By Richard LacayoThe announcement by defense secretary Robert Gates on Feb. 26 that the Pentagon would lift a ban on taking pictures of service members' coffins coming home--as long as their families consent to it--was the latest volley in a debate on photographs of war dead that dates back to the Civil War. Long before television and ...
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Apr. 20, 1992 | By BRUCE VAN VOORST WASHINGTON Robert GatesCIA Director Robert Gates talks about Saddam Hussein's still hidden Scuds, the KGB's new goals and declassifying the J.F.K. assassination files
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Nov. 11, 1991 | By Janice CastroQuestions about ROBERT GATES resurfaced on the eve of the Senate vote this week on his confirmation as head of the CIA. At issue: former Israeli intelligence officer Ari Ben-Menashe's claim that Gates planned illegal arms shipments to Iraq with him in the mid-1980s. Gates convincingly disputed the charges during the Senate hearings. The Senate ...
Robert Gates Blog Posts
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MiscellanyNov. 18, 2009
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MiscellanyOct. 2, 2009
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MiscellanyMay. 28, 2009
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MiscellanyMay. 4, 2009
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