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W&M celebrates Charter Day, Robert Gates '65 invested as chancellor

by Erin Zagursky
February 6, 2012

Although America faces many obstacles including increased partisanship, the country has "the power and the means to overcome them," former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates '65 told William & Mary's Charter Day audience Friday after being invested as the College's new chancellor.

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    Charter Day remarks by Chancellor Robert M. Gates '65

    Robert M. Gates '65 | February 3, 2012

    The following are prepared remarks by William & Mary Chancellor and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates ’65 during the College's 2012 Charter Day Ceremony.