only Non-Corps Honoree) – Texas A&M University Arthur S. Flemming Award of 1978 Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement (1992) George Bush Award (2007) – George Bush Presidential Library Foundation Aviation Week & Space Technology Magazine: Person of the Year 2008 MTV University Man of the Year 2010 Foreign Policy'''s list of top global thinkers for "being America's last bipartisan figure" Sylvanus Thayer Award (United States Military Academy) Robert C. Vance Distinguished Lecturer, Central Connecticut State University, 2011 Order of Bahrain, 1st Degree Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun, 2017 References Citations Sources Bibliography Robert Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five presidents and How They Won the Cold War. Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (1997). Robert Gates, Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War. Alfred A. Knopf (2014). Robert Gates, A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service (2016). Robert Gates, Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World. Alfred A. Knopf (2020) Further reading Paul Burka, "Agent of Change", Texas Monthly (November 2006) Robert Gates, US Intelligence and the End of the Cold War, 1999, CIA Robert Gates, Frontline The Gulf War: An Oral History: Interview with Robert Gates, Deputy National Security Advisor, 2001, PBS.org Robert Gates, A Balanced Strategy: Reprogramming the Pentagon for a New Age, Foreign Affairs (January/February 2009) External links Biography at the United States Department of Defense Robert Gates' The ABC's of Spying Robert Gates' Interview with app2us.com DefenseLink Biography: Robert M. Gates Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense Nominee: A Bibliography at Georgetown University Law Library Ubben Lecture at DePauw University by Leon Charney on The Leon Charney Report. Robert Gates discusses his book "From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five presidents and How They Won the Cold War." October 13, 1996. Gates on relations with China: Nov. 2007 visit, June 1, 2007 The Reinvention of Robert Gates by Michael Crowley, The New Republic'', November 9, 2009 Interview with Charlie Rose Robert Gates, former secretary of defense discusses his book "DUTY: Memoirs of a Secretary at War." January 14, 2014. |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1943 births 21st-century American politicians American male non-fiction writers 21st-century American memoirists American political writers Atlantic Council Chancellors of the College of William & Mary College of William &