Obama's Decision To Keep Gates Looks Ever Better -- A Commentary

Robert Gates. Brooks Kraft / Corbis for TIME

From The Wall Street Journal:

It now appears that President Barack Obama's shrewdest personnel move wasn't making Timothy Geithner his Treasury secretary, or Lawrence Summers his chief economic adviser.

It was keeping Robert Gates, a Bush administration holdover, as secretary of defense.

Mr. Gates is a smart guy, tough in his own clipped manner, and an extremely crafty bureaucratic operator. All that was known before the president decided to keep him on.

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