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Senate Panel Approves Defense Secretary Nominee Robert Gates

HeadlineDec 06, 2006

The Senate Armed Services Committee has unanimously approved the nomination of Robert Gates as the next secretary of defense. In a stark contrast to his four-month confirmation hearings to become CIA director in 1991, Gates’s hearing lasted just one day.

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