It is my great honor to welcome our guests, too many of you here and i am proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, our 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. He has dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his career of Service Began early at william and mary, not many know that he drove a school bus while he was a student, and that he was an assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and that he had a senator as one of boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating in 1965, he joined the cia and was the first career officer to scale the ranks to become this irector. He served as president of texas a m from 2002 to 2006. When president bush called him to washington to serve a, as secretary
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