Secretary+of+Defense

First review what your textbook has to say about the Department of Defense


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 * Biography:**

Bob Gates spent a career with the Central Intelligence Agency, finally as Director of Central Intelligence. He retired in 1993, and then worked in a variety of university positions, and joined several different corporate boards; in 1999 he was appointed interim Dean of the George W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M, and was appointed President of Texas A&M in 2002, where he served until his appointment as Secretary of Defense in 2006 by George W. Bush. President Obama allowed Secretary Gates to continue serving.

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