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Washington has been abuzz this past week over the new memoir by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Now Secretary Gates speaks for himself in his first television interview about his book. Our Cover Story is reported by Rita Braver: 
  
  
  
 Robert Gates doesn't pull any punches about why he now lives in a town outside Seattle: "Well, other than the fact that it's the farthest place from Washington, D.C. …" he laughed. 
  
 But it wasn't all that long ago that he was Secretary of Defense -- the first person in history to hold the job under two presidents from two different parties. 
  
 And working for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Gates won bipartisan praise for his managerial skills, integrity and calm demeanor. 
  
 Yet, he says, in private he was often seething. 
  
 "So why was I so angry all the time? Why did I want to leave all the time? . . . It's just because getting anything done in Washington was so damnably hard," he said. 
  
 After a week filled with leaks, excerpts, and pundits holding forth, it's clear that Gates' new memoir, "Duty," has caused a sensation, and will likely go down in history as one of the most candid assessments ever written by a former Cabinet official. 
  
 Take his view of the majority of Congress: "Uncivil, incompetent in fulfilling basic Constitutional responsibilities, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical . . . too often putting self and reelection before country." 
  
 "I thought about that sentence a lot," Gates told Braver," and whether it was too strong. And I decided at the end of the day, that that's what I believe." 
  
 Gates, now 70, is a former CIA Director, who was serving as head of Texas A&M University when President Bush asked him to replace Donald Rumsfeld as Secretary of Defense in November 2006. 
  
 By then the president, he says, had concluded that things were going badly in Iraq, and Gates decided Congress needed to hear the truth. 
  
 When asked by Sen. Carl Levin during his Senate confirmation hearing, "Are we winning in Iraq?" Gates replied, "No, sir." 
  
 Gates credits President Bush with turning the U.S. effort around by ordering a surge of some 30,000 personnel -- an idea Gates says even he didn't support at first. 
  
 He had some other minor disagreements with Mr. Bush. But he was more likely to clash with Vice President Dick Cheney, who did seem to understand that his influence with Mr. Bush had waned. 
  
 "Actually, he was pretty good-humored about it," Gates laughed. "He would occasionally say, 'Look, I know I'm alone on this, but here is what I think …'" 
  
 Gates' study is filled with military mementos, such as a piece of an MRAP (mine resistant ambush protected vehicle), credited with saving countless lives and limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
  
 But Gates had to fight his own war within the Pentagon to get the vehicles produced. 
  
 "It's bureaucratic inertia," he explained. "It's an unwillingness to spend money on a war that everybody expected to be over soon. But the key for me was that protecting these young men and women was foremost." 
  
 Gates became known as "the Soldiers Secretary." And yet, from everything he wrote in "Duty," "It doesn't sound like you really enjoyed being Secretary of Defense," said Braver. 
  
 "I didn't enjoy it," he replied. "There is nothing enjoyable about a job where you put men and women in harm's way for their country's sake." 
  
 Yet, in 2008, when newly-elected President Obama asked Gates (a Republican) to stay on, his answer was an unequivocal yes. "I felt it was my duty to those troops, and that didn't end with the Bush administration," he said. ||||| Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is defending his new memoir, “Duty,” dismissing claims that it unfairly targets the Obama administration. 
  
 ‘I make very explicit in the book that I agreed with all of the president's decisions on Afghanistan and ones that he made in 2009 and subsequently,” Gates told CBS’s Rita Braver in an interview aired Sunday on CBS's "Sunday Morning" and "Face the Nation." “My one concern was that over the course of 2010 and early 2011, the president began to have his own reservations about whether it would all work. I think that is not an unfair thing to say.” 
  
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 Gates also defended the timing of his memoir’s release, pushing back against critics who have said it is inappropriate for a former Cabinet secretary to criticize a sitting president. 
  
 “Having been secretary for four and a half years, I didn't think that waiting until 2017 to weigh in on these issues and in a comprehensive and thoughtful way made any sense,” Gates said. 
  
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Robert Gates today took on the backlash that greeted his memoir, Duty, Politico reports, saying that his criticisms of the Obama administration were relatively restrained and justified. "My one concern was that over the course of 2010 and early 2011, the president began to have his own reservations about whether it would all work," he said. "I think that is not an unfair thing to say." Highlights of his interview with CBS' Sunday Morning: On Obama and Afghanistan: "It's one thing to tell the troops that you support them. It's another to work at making them believe that you believe as president that their sacrifice is worth it, that the cause is just, that what they are doing was important for the country, and that they must succeed. President Bush did that with the troops. I did not see President Obama do that. It was this absence of passion, this absence of a conviction of the importance of success that disturbed me." On the timing of the book: "[The book] deals with getting into wars [and] getting out of wars. With the experience and perspective of working for eight presidents, and having been secretary for four and a half years, I didn't think that waiting until 2017 to weigh in on these issues, and in a comprehensive and thoughtful way, made any sense." On that time he agreed with Joe Biden: "One time when I agreed with him on something—often Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and I would ride back to the Pentagon together from the White House—and Mullen turned to me at one point [and] said, 'You know that you agreed with the vice president this morning.' And I said, 'Yeah, that's why I'm rethinking my position.'" On Hillary Clinton: "The thing that I liked best about Secretary Clinton, other than the fact that she has a great sense of humor, was she is very tough-minded." Would she make a good president? "Actually, I think she would." On how he knew it was time to make an exit: "I became very emotionally caught up with the troops, and it got to the point where I couldn't speak to them, or about them, without choking up, and that was another reason why I thought it's time to go."