Dec 19th, 2008 · Robert Gates was ready to say farewell to the Pentagon when President-elect Obama asked him to stay on. The once-controversial spymaster has reinvented himself as a consensus builder. He's not the Gates people recall from a generation ago.
Dec 1st, 2008 · President-elect Barack Obama appointed former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to his national security team on Monday. He also announced that Bush appointee Robert Gates will remain as Secretary of Defense. What do Obama's picks reveal about his global priorities?
Dec 1st, 2008 · President-elect Obama announced today he's chosen Senator Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State and asked Robert Gates to stay in his position as Defense Secretary. NPR Political Editor Ken Rudin and BET Washington Bureau Chief Pamela Gentry discuss Obama's latest picks.
Dec 1st, 2008 · President-elect Obama made public Monday what has long been expected: He will nominate Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. Clinton will be part of a new national security team that includes other familiar faces. Robert Gates, the current secretary of defense, would stay at the Pentagon. For national security adviser, Obama has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Jones, a former NATO commander and commandant of the Marine Corps.
Dec 1st, 2008 · President-elect Obama is expected Monday to announce that Sen. Hillary Clinton, his Democratic primary rival, will be his secretary of state and Robert Gates will stay on as defense secretary.
Dec 5th, 2007 · In Iraq on Wednesday, a deadly car bomb exploded a few miles away from the U.S. secretary of defense. Robert Gates is trying to hammer out details of a "declaration of principles" governing Iraq's relationship with the U.S. military in its country.
Dec 20th, 2006 · Robert Gates, the new secretary of defense, makes his first official visit to Iraq on the same day that a story in the Washington Post says President Bush is considering adding troops to the fight in Iraq. The president is to increase the overall standing size of U.S. armed forces.
Dec 18th, 2006 · Robert Gates begins work today as the nation's new Secretary of Defense, saying that Iraq is his top priority, and that failure there would haunt the U.S. for decades to come. Gates says he will travel to Iraq soon to hear the views of U.S. commanders on how to improve the situation.