Statement by President Obama on Robert Gates Becoming Chancellor of William & Mary

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 6, 2011.  

I congratulate Robert Gates on his selection as the twenty-fourth Chancellor of the College of William & Mary. In Bob, one of our nation’s oldest colleges has found one of our nation’s finest public servants. I’m confident that Bob will bring to this new role the same sense of duty and personal integrity that I and other Presidents valued during his distinguished career in government. As he did at Texas…