Robert Gates
Portraits[edit]
DoD official photo. Circa December 2006.
CIA official photo, color. Circa early 1990s.
CIA official photo, black and white. Circa early 1990s.
Nomination[edit]
Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on December 5, 2006
President George W. Bush announces the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld and the nomination of Gates concurrently.
Gates accepts the nomination
Gates testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, December 5, 2006.
Gates being sworn in as Defense Secretary on December 18, 2006
Gates with politicians[edit]
Robert Gates meets with Tony Blair on January 14, 2007
He met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on January 16, 2007
Vladimir Putin, February 9-11, 2007
Vaclav Klaus, March 09, 2007
Admiral William J. Fallon and John P. Abizaid at change of command ceremony of US Central Command, March 16, 2007
The Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 2007: Gen. Casey, Gen. Moseley, Adm. Giambastiani, SecDef Gates, Pres. Bush, Gen. Pace, Adm. Mullen and Gen. Conway.
Gates meets Lt. Gen. Zhang Qinsheng, deputy chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army in 2007 in Singapore.
Gates attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Polish Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Marshal Jozef Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, Poland, April 24, 2007
Robert Gates, left, and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer 2007
President of the United States George W. Bush (at lectern) introduces Admiral Michael Mullen (second from left) and General James E. Cartwright (far left) as his nominees to be Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, respectively. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stands alongside Bush.
Gates meeting Danish secretary of defense Søren Gade.
Gates with Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gates with Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
Gates with Admiral James G. Stavridis and General Bantz J. Craddock, 2009.
Other[edit]
Gates as President of Texas A&M
Gates at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof during the 2007 Munich Conference on Security Policy
Gates along with members of Texas A&M University's Corps of Cadets at the Pentagon
| United States Secretaries of Defense |  |
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| Forrestal • Johnson • Marshall • Lovett • Wilson • McElroy • Gates (Thomas) • McNamara • Clifford • Laird • Richardson • Schlesinger • Rumsfeld • Brown • Weinberger • Carlucci • Cheney • Aspin • Perry • Cohen • Rumsfeld • Gates (Robert) • Panetta • Hagel • Carter • Mattis • Esper • Austin |