President Obama's offer to engage with Iran is not "open-ended," and he is "anticipating or hoping for" a response within the next two months, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Standing ...

MSNBC’s foreign policy maven, Andrea Mitchell, calls it a “bombshell,” and Tuesday’s headline, from Robert Gates’ own Wall Street Journal op-ed, touts the former defense secretary’s “quiet fury.” ...

Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates says Obama didn't deserve Nobel Prize when he got it Former Obama secretary of defense Robert Gates wasn't sure President Obama ever deserved to get a Nobel ...

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 ...

Set your countdown clocks to 2011, when Robert Gates, Defense Secretary to George W. Bush and Barack Obama, plans to step down. “It would be a mistake to wait until January 2012,” he tells Foreign ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of former CIA Director and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. At the time of his appointment, Gates was the youngest person ever to assume the role of CIA ...