Obama Calls Gates One of Nation’s Finest Public Servants
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President Barack Obama said farewell to top adviser and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today, calling him one of the nation’s finest public servant and a man who was willing to give voice to “hard truths.”
Gates is “a humble American patriot, a man of common sense and decency,” Obama said during a ceremony at the Pentagon as the defense chief steps down. “To know Bob is to know his profound sense of duty.”