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Business executives for National Security (Washington, DC).(Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates)(Speech)
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May 15, 2008
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As Delivered by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Washington, DC, Thursday, May 15, 2008
Thank you, Sidney [Harman] and Brent [Scowcroft]. Sidney, you're amazing. And, Brent the real Secretary of State is really going to be ticked off.
I feel like I have worked with Brent Scowcroft since I was a child. Actually, I was first detailed from CIA to the National Security Council 34 years ago this summer. When Brent offered me the deputy national security adviser job 15 years later, in 1989, as he just suggested, I accepted on one condition: I wouldn't work his hours not keep his work hours. And as he indicated, he quickly agreed to my conditions, I think confident I ...