A former president of Texas A&amp;M University, he took the oath of his current office in late 2006.
He joined the CIA in 1966 and is the only career officer to ever rise to the level of director of that agency, a position he held from 1991 until 1993. A former president of Texas A&amp;M University, he took the oath of his current office in late 2006. The CIA experience formed the perspective for his memoir, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insiders Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War, published in 1996. Identify this cabinet secretary who replaced Donald Rumsfeld and has accepted Barack Obama's request to continue as Secretary of Defense in his administration.
He joined the CIA in 1966 and is the only career officer to ever rise to the level of director of that agency, a position he held from 1991 until 1993.
Robert Michael Gates