It presents a significantly more negative picture of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton than Gates’ statements in office led anyone to expect. And it presents an interesting contrast with Gates’s ...

“Candid discussions with the president are important,” Cardin, D-Md., said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Reading about it in a book can only harm those types of discussions in the future.” Sen. Jim Inhofe, R ...

Former Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates wasn't sure President Obama ever deserved to get a Nobel Peace Prize. (Next Question podcast, July 17) 27,650 people played the daily Crossword recently.

The first day of coverage of former Robert Gates’ book on his years running the Pentagon have focused largely on the strains between him and President Barack Obama’s White House. That should come as ...

WASHINGTON -- By early 2011, writes former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, he had concluded that President Obama "doesn't believe in his own [Afghanistan] strategy, and doesn't consider the war to be ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates writes in his new memoir that President Barack Obama was concerned his national security advisers might later write memoirs — much to Gates’ offense. Duty: ...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, visiting Israeli authorities on Monday, said President Obama “is fully aware that the Iranians may simply try to run out the clock” in negotiations over their nuclear ...

At outgoing defense secretary Robert Gates' Pentagon farewell ceremony, President Obama praised him as one if the best defense secretaries this nation has seen. He honored Gates with the Medal of ...

Here’s the New York Times’ take on the new book by former Obama (and Bush) Defense Secretary Robert Gates: “After ordering a troop increase in Afghanistan, President Obama eventually lost faith in the ...

In a sweeping interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he will step down in 2011 after the president's Afghanistan strategy review is completed. Speaking to national ...