Time's Cover Revealed: Robert Gates

Time’s Elizabeth Rubin sits down with Gates Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for this week’s cover story.

An excerpt:
Just past the flight deck is a conference room outfitted with plugs and portals and a lacquered table at which the relaxed Secretary sat in jeans, loafers and a pressed button-down, on the way back home from Afghanistan and Iraq. We’d been talking about the stress of congressional hearings, the burden of sending young men and women to war, and just as our conversation was drawing to a close, he said, “I always used to tell people that Texas A&M football caused me more stress than any job I’ve ever had.

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