Herald-Tribune
by Billy Cox
SARASOTA – Could political gerrymandering threaten national security?
Robert Gates, the former Defense Department secretary who famously navigated his public-service career among eight ideologically diverse presidents, cannot dismiss the linkage.
“To get anything done in Washington, you have to reach across the aisle,” said Gates as he prepared for the Ringling College Library Association Town Hall Lecture Series at Sarasota’s Van Wezel Auditorium on Feb. 5.
“One of the reasons we won the Cold War was because we were able to sustain a basic strategy of containment through nine presidential administrations of both political parties.”
