Post–Obama administration Robert Gates

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secretary of defense chuck hagel speaks robert gates , leon panetta, november 2013



gates @ lbj library in 2016


gates principal, along condoleezza rice, stephen hadley , anja manuel, in ricehadleygates llc, strategic consulting firm.


on september 6, 2011, announced gates had accepted position of chancellor @ college of william & mary, succeeding sandra day o connor. took office of chancellor on february 3, 2012.


on may 2, 2012, starbucks corporation announced gates had been elected starbucks board of directors. serve on board s nominating , corporate governance committee.


on october 30, 2013, boy scouts of america announced gates had been elected national executive board. while on board, serve national president-elect. in may 2014, began two-year-long term bsa national president. randall stephenson, chairman , chief executive officer of at&t inc. serves under gates president-elect. gates has succeeded wayne perry national president. on may 21, 2015, gates stated status quo [ban on gay adult leaders] in [the bsa] movement s membership standards cannot sustained , no longer seek revoke charters of scout units accept gay adult leaders.


in memoir, duty: memoirs of secretary @ war, gates alternately criticized , praised obama s military leadership, writing, never doubted [his] support troops, support mission [in afghanistan] , , proud work president had made 1 of courageous decisions had ever witnessed in white house [by authorizing raid against osama bin laden].


in wake of 2014 crimean crisis on 25 march 2014, gates wrote op-ed piece on vladimir putin, russian expansionism, nascent sanctions regime, military budget, , need bold leadership.








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