NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Robert Gates, former Defense Secretary and founder of the Gates Global Policy Center, about the center's new report focused on re-imagining public diplomacy.

The following is a transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates that aired on May 19, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to the former Secretary of Defense and ...

The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 18, 2025. MARGARET ...

2020-07-04T20:00:34-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/7ce/20200704201617001_hd.jpgFormer Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke about American leadership in ...

January 13, 2014; Washington, D.C. – In his first interview since details from his memoir became public, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks with NPR News about some of the most widely ...

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to confirm Robert Gates, 63, as defense secretary, with Democrats and Republicans portraying him as the man who will help overhaul President Bush's Iraq ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is the speaker for the 2015 Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series presented by Miami University's Farmer School of Business. He will present "Duty" at 7 p.m.

After serving 8 presidents, the secretary of defense is ready to step down. June 6, 2011— -- After five years of service and more than 12,000 casualties among US troops in two wars, outgoing ...

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had ...

Robert Gates, 80, is the distinguished former secretary of defense under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Before that, he spent 26 years in the CIA, which he headed, and was a member of ...