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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting on Friday, May 23, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. Gates will have an academic building named after him at William & Mary, the university in Virginia where he holds the honorary position of chancellor, the school announced Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

William & Mary will name building after former defense secretary Robert Gates

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Putin on the Radar Screen Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

‘Havana Syndrome’ and holding Russia accountable

By Daniel N. Hoffman

Ex-CIA director, defense secretary Gates: US is paralyzed

By TERRY SPENCER - Associated Press

2 men involved in thwarting drug arrest now in custody

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Robert Gates to stay on as William & Mary’s chancellor

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In a Friday, June 30, 2017 photo, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, reimburses the Concrete Food Bank the $11,500 it paid at auction for the building it occupies in Concrete, Wash. Food bank Vice President Angela Massingale, second right, made the winning bid. Food bank volunteers were worried when the county put the building up for sale, because the organization didn’t have money to buy one and there aren’t any other food banks within about 20 miles. (Scott Terrell/Skagit Valley Herald via AP)

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates helps save food bank

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting, in Nashville, Tenn., in this May 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

Robert Gates: Expect more attacks in the West as ISIS is defeated in the Middle East

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting, in Nashville, Tenn., in this May 23, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski, File)

Robert Gates: I think Donald Trump ‘can exercise very sound leadership’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., right, and the committee's ranking member, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., stand with Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, prior to the start of Tillerson's confirmation hearing before the committee. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Rex Tillerson ‘right person at the right time’: Robert Gates

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Thursday, May 19, 2016 in Lawrenceville, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Donald Trump fires back at Robert Gates: ‘Not a big fan of his’

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In his memoir, Robert Gates (right) wrote that President Obama did not always live up to budget agreements and suspected top brass of conspiracies against the commander in chief. Mr. Obama once retorted to the command by saying "that's an order," which Mr. Gates found unprecedented. (Associated Press)

Obama military strategy blasted by Robert Gates, Leon Panetta, Chuck Hagel

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Scouts prepare their flags before leading marchers in the 41st annual Pride Parade Sunday, June 28, 2015, in Seattle. A large turnout was expected for gay pride parades across the U.S. following the landmark Supreme Court ruling that said gay couples can marry anywhere in the country. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Boy Scout leaders vote to end ban on adult homosexuals

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Feb. 10, 2014, file photo, Pascal Tessier, center, takes part in an activity with fellow scouts Matthew Huerta, left, and Michael Fine, right, after he received his Eagle Scout badge in Chevy Chase, Md. On Thursday, April 2, 2015, the Boy Scouts' New York chapter announced it hired Mr. Tessier as the nation's first openly gay Eagle Scout as a summer camp leader in public contrast to the national scouting organization's ban on openly gay adult members. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez/File)

Reform Jews urge Boy Scouts to admit gays, transgenders

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

File - In this Feb 6, 2013 file photo, from left, Joshua Kusterer, 12, Nach Mitschke, 6, and Wyatt Mitschke, 4, salute as they recite the pledge of allegiance during the Save Our Scouts Prayer Vigil and Rally in front of the Boy Scouts of America National Headquarters in Texas. The Scouts' ban on gays was the focus of the rally. (AP Photo/Richard Rodriguez, File)

TIM CONSTANTINE: Don’t like the rules? Just ignore them

By Tim Constantine

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates presents Mark Stolowitz with the Silver Buffalo Medal during the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting on Friday, May 23, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. The Sliver Buffalo Award is the highest commendation given to a volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America. Gates was elected as the organization's new president and is taking over one of the nation's largest youth organizations as it fights a membership decline and debates its policy toward gays. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

Robert Gates, Boy Scout president, calls for gay troop leaders

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testifies regarding the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 15, 2011. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama’s Islamic State strategy ‘needs to be changed’: Robert Gates

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Ashton Carter's performance before the Senate Armed Services Committee provoked an immediate response from the White House, where the chief presidential spokesman Joshua Ernest cautioned that Mr. Obama, and not Mr. Carter, sets policy. (Associated Press)

Ashton Carter airs differences with Obama on Guantanamo, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan

By Maggie Ybarra and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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Pentagon bureaucracy cut to improve efficiency proves daunting

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Nov. 24, 2014, file photo shows President Barack Obama, left, looking to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, right, as he talks about his resignation during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

For Obama and the Pentagon, an uneasy relationship

By JULIE PACE and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 15, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates testifies regarding the Department of Defense Fiscal Year 2012 budget request before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense on Capitol Hill in Washington. Gates asserts in a new memoir that President Barack Obama grew frustrated with U.S. policy in Afghanistan and that Vice President Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue. He also accuses members of Congress of inquisition-like treatment of administration officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Gates warns president’s goal of destroying Islamic State is ‘very ambitious’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times