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Traditionally, the job of Defense Secretary goes to a person who sets a tone and policy atop the national defense structure while a deputy actually runs the building day-to-day. Rumsfeld tried to do both. Gates would fit the traditional pattern if he is confirmed.
The last time presumptive Pentagon boss Robert M. Gates faced Senate confirmation - for CIA director in 1991- he put a small good-luck charm in his pocket. It was a smooth, white oblong stone he'd picked up while hiking in Washington State's Olympic Range. Gates put it in...
Gates is likely to be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense and would bring to the job intimate knowledge of the White House, the Congress, the CIA and military intelligence. But he might want to dig the stone out of his belongings just in case.
The Kansas-born Gates is a Bush family hand from way back. He served Bush's father as deputy national security adviser and later as CIA director. He was a rare hardliner in the Bush 41 White House, famously suspicious of Mikhail Gorbachev and closer ideologically to then-Defense boss...
But Puchtel’s fifteen minutes of fame might not be over yet. Last May, the Chicago Bears offered Puchtel a tryout, despite the fact that Puchtel had not played football since catching passes at tight end for the Crimson his freshman year. Although the transition back to football...