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PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA TAPS GATES TO KEEP SERVING AS DEFENSE SECRETARY
December 01, 2008
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 -- The U.S. Army Installation Management Command's Carlisle Barracks Garrison issued the following news article:

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates will remain in the Pentagon's top post when President-elect Barack Obama's administration takes office.

Obama, who also announced his other nominees for top national security posts today, cited the necessity of continuity as the United States fights wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as his rat . . .

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