Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld gestures during a media briefing at the Pentagon in this Oct 26, 2006 file photo. Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down. Word comes a day after the Democratic gains in the election, in which Rumsfeld was a focus of much of the criticism of the Iraq war.
(AP Photo/Chris Greenberg, File)
Biographical information on Robert Gates
NAME -- Robert M. Gates.
AGE-BIRTH DATE -- 63, Sept. 25, 1943, Wichita, Kan.
EXPERIENCE -- CIA intelligence analyst, 1966-1974; National Security Council staff, 1974-1979; director of executive staff for CIA director, 1981-1982; deputy director for intelligence, 1982-1986; chair of the National Intelligence Council, 1983-1986; deputy director of CIA, 1986-1989; acting director, 1986-1987; deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1989; assistant to the president and deputy for national security affairs, 1989-1991; CIA director, 1991-1993; interim dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, 1999-2001; president of Texas A&M University, 2002-present
EDUCATION -- B.A. from College of William and Mary, 1965; M.A. Indiana University, 1966; Ph.D. Georgetown University, 1974.
FAMILY -- Gates and his wife, Becky, have two children.
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