Future of Representative Democracy. This was part of a recent forum hosted by the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. It is 90 minutes. My great honor to ,elcome our distinguished guest and to our love it caps on arena it caps on arena and i am enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, william and marys 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for states statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. His dedicated he has dedicated his career to public u. S. Ce serving a two president s and leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence. His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know but he drove the City School Bus when he was a student and was a chit assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discov