Should Barack Obama keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense?

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "Mr. Gates is just that sort of professional and, as a former CIA director, is easily supple and smart enough to carry out [the withdrawl] with skill and aplomb."
	1/21/2009 10:10:30 AM

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Thumbs up
	1/20/2009 9:45:02 PM

John Kerry
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Secretary Gates brings not just institutional knowledge but a keen understanding of the global challenge we face...
	1/20/2009 7:10:57 PM

Steny Hoyer
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. ...would be a positive move
	1/14/2009 10:57:28 AM

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Gates is a great choice.
	1/13/2009 2:48:44 PM

Dick Cheney
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. the idea of keeping (Bob) Gates at defense is excellent.
	1/13/2009 2:48:05 PM

David Corn
	Barack Obama should not keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Also unsettling is Obama's decision to re-up Gates at the Pentagon.
	1/13/2009 9:39:36 AM

Chris Carney (D-PA)
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Asking Gates to stay on is a commitment to continuity that will serve the nation well
	1/13/2009 9:35:40 AM

Michael Tomasky
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "grants him the room to operate and to isolate the political opposition"
	1/9/2009 3:23:55 PM

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Mr. Gates is the right man to help Mr. Obama
	1/9/2009 11:49:59 AM

Charles Krauthammer
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. ...he keeps Bob Gates on at Defense, that's the kind of change I can believe in.
	12/14/2008 9:21:33 PM

Ari Fleischer
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "the continuity is important"
	12/12/2008 1:26:54 PM

Henry Kissinger
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. The continuation in office of Robert Gates as secretary of defense is an important balancing element...
	12/8/2008 3:29:26 PM

Madeleine Albright
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "I think it's really that it makes a lot of sense to have Bob Gates continue"
	12/6/2008 4:48:19 PM

Katrina vanden Heuvel
	Barack Obama should not keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "troubling"
	12/6/2008 4:43:21 PM

Michael Goodwin
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Reports the President-elect will keep Robert Gates as secretary of defense counts as the best news of the transition
	12/6/2008 4:38:42 PM

Debra Saunders
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. I'm thrilled.
	12/6/2008 4:36:52 PM

Washington Post
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. "Barack Obama would be wise to leave Defense Secretary Robert Gates in place."
	12/5/2008 2:12:39 PM

New York Daily News
	Barack Obama should keep Robert Gates on as U.S. Secretary of Defense. Obama also chose wisely in inviting Robert Gates to continue as defense secretary
	12/5/2008 2:05:38 PM