The Secret Life of Robert Gates
The Secret Life of Robert Gates by Philip Ewing, Politico
Robert Gates’s tenure running the Pentagon might go down as the greatest performance in acting history.
On the outside, he was an even-keeled, plain-speaking former college president, one who declared to Congress he hadn’t returned to Washington to be a “bump on a log.” He cleaned house at the Air Force after an embarrassing nuclear weapons scandal and, most of all, righted the course of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — as much as any secretary of defense could.
On the inside, according to an early copy of Gates’s new memoir obtained by POLITICO, he was apparently hating every minute of it. But he kept almost everything behind the poker face…
Also see: White House Rushes to Respond to Gates Book by Jonathan Allen, Politico
