Robert Gates, President Bush’s nominee to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense, has long ties to Western Washington. After his retirement from the first Bush Administration, he and ...

It was with this view of a gray lake and a gray sky in Washington state, cloaked in cedars and hazed by rainfall, that Robert Gates ... for it to be such a big fight," Gates says.

Robert Gates and his wife Becky took a road trip last summer, driving from their home in Skagit County to Glacier National Park in Montana. For many, that would be a typical summer vacation, but ...

Former defense secretary Robert M. Gates is about ... past four decades," everybody gets some big stuff wrong. Former defense secretary Robert M. Gates is about to publish a memoir deeply critical ...

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump brushed aside concerns raised this week about his candidacy by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, saying he’s “not a big fan” of Mr ...