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Former Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, is the first guest in the University of Colorado Boulder’s new speaker series on the campus. He will visit the campus on Feb. 28 through to March 1, not only will he be delivering his speech but he will also be visiting classrooms to inspire leadership throughout the CU. He will be making this speech at the Mackey Auditorium Hall and the tickets are sold out.

Robert Gates is well-known for being the Secretary of Defense for eight different presidents, starting with Jimmy Carter and ending with Barack Obama. According to Daily Camera, Gates served under Obama even though a political opposite, George W. Bush, appointed him to the position. He is also known for being a huge advocate for leadership. His latest book, A Passion for Leadership: Lessons on Change and Reform from Fifty Years of Public Service, dives deep into his experience with five decades of experience with leadership. He has also written three memoirs which include personal experiences from Iraq and Afghanistan to details of his CIA career. Although he is no longer involved in politics anymore, he has made headlines for an endorsement of Donald Trump’s defense secretary, James Mattis.

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She responded with “the reason I was here tonight was I wanted to see Bob again, and welcome him to our campus. I just think the books he has written show the depth of his understanding in Washington and in government and in leadership, and when I saw him relay his six points about leadership, I was checking them off and I was thinking that’s my husband each and every one of those, is who he is. So, they have a lot in common and I was just really impressed with how he could summarize leadership skills and values and he hit them all on the

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