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I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or after a war, of the United States' essentially unilaterally disarming.
Robert M. Gates
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Robert M. Gates
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 25
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Robert Michael Gates
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