Here’s a look at the life of former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
個人
誕生日: 9月 25, 1943
出生地: Wichita, Kansas
出生名: Robert Michael Gates
お父さん: Melville A. Gates, wholesale auto parts salesperson
母: Isabel V. Gates
結婚: Rebecca (Wilkie) Gates (1966-present)
子供達: Eleanor, Bradley
教育: College of William and Mary, B.A., 歴史, 1965; Indiana University, M.A., 歴史, 1966; Georgetown University, Ph.D., Russian and Soviet history, 1974
Military Service: US Air Force, 2nd Lieutenant
その他の事実
At the time of his appointment, Gates was the youngest person ever to assume the role of CIA director. Plus, he is the only CIA director to rise from an entry level position to lead the agency.
He is the ninth naval officer to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
Gates has served under every US president from Richard Nixon through Barack Obama.
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1966 – Is recruited as an analyst for the CIA.
1971 – As an intelligence analyst specializing in Soviet affairs, Gates is assigned to the CIA’s support staff at the initial negotiations between the United States and Soviet Union on reducing strategic arms.
1974-1979 – Member of the National Security Council staff.
January 1980 – Is reassigned to the CIA as national intelligence officer on the Soviet Union and executive assistant to the director, Stansfield Turner.
1月 1981 – Becomes executive assistant to new CIA Director William J. Casey. Gates is also director of the Office of Policy and Plans and chairman of the Executive Career Service.
1月 1982 – Is promoted to deputy director for Intelligence and is in charge of the analytical branch of the agency.
9月 1983 – Is appointed chairman of the National Intelligence Council.
4月 18, 1986 – Is promoted to deputy director of Central Intelligence.
December 1986-March 1987 – Is acting director during Casey’s surgery for a brain tumor.
1月 29, 1987 – Casey resigns as director of the CIA.
2月 2, 1987 – US President Ronald Reagan nominates Gates to be Casey’s successor.
行進 2, 1987 – Gates withdraws his nomination due to continued questioning about his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. He stays on as deputy director under William H. Webster.
1月 1989 – National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft appoints Gates as his deputy.
五月 14, 1991 – US President George H. W. ブッシュ nominates Gates to succeed Webster as director of the CIA.
11月 5, 1991 – The Senate confirms Gates, 64-31. At the time, インクルード 31 “nay” votes represented the strongest Senate opposition ever received by a CIA director nominee.
11月 12, 1991 – Gates is sworn in as the nation’s 15th director of Central Intelligence.
1月 20, 1993 – Steps down as CIA director.
1996 – His memoir, “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War,” is published.
12月 1996 – At the request of the administration of US President Bill Clinton, Gates chairs an independent panel reviewing the possibility of missile threats to North America over the next 15 年.
1999-2001 – Is interim Dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
8月 1, 2002-12月 16, 2006 – Is president of Texas A&M University.
2月 2005 – Is offered the position of director of national intelligence by US President George W. ブッシュ but turns it down.
11月 8, 2006 – Is nominated by President Bush to be the new secretary of defense to replace Donald Rumsfeld.
12月 6, 2006 – The Senate confirms Gates, 95-2.
12月 18, 2006 – Is sworn in as the 22nd secretary of defense.
12月 1, 2008 – President-elect Obama announces that Gates will stay on as defense secretary for at least the first year of Obama’s presidency.
六月 30, 2011 – Resigns as secretary of defense, to be replaced by Leon Panetta. President Obama awards Gates the Presidential Medal of Freedom during his retirement ceremony.
2月 3, 2012 – Gates is invested as the 24th Chancellor of the College of William and Mary.
2012-present – A principal in the consulting firm RiceHadleyGates LLC, along with founding members Condoleezza Rice, Stephen Hadley and Anja Manuel.
10月 30, 2013 – The Boy Scouts of America announces that Gates has been nominated to head the organization for a two-year term.
五月 22, 2014-五月 26, 2016 – Gates serves as the national president of the Boy Scouts of America.
五月 21, 2015 – Citing social, judicial and political changes, Gates calls for the Boy Scouts of America に end its ban on gay adult leaders.
六月 14, 2020 – Gates calls for Army bases to rename ten of their installations named after Confederate leaders saying the military symbols represent “the dark side of history.” His suggestion comes days after President Trump tweeted that he would not consider renaming parts of a “Great American Heritage.”
六月 16, 2020 – His book, “Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World,” is published.
