From Newsweek:
It’s not often that a top administration official dumps on the president and vice president on his way out of town and a thousand government workers show up to get his autograph. But so it went in Washington in mid-January, when erstwhile Defense Secretary Robert Gates came to the Pentagon to sign copies of his blistering account of his time in the Obama administration: Duty: Memoir of a Secretary at War.
One of SecDef’s big themes is “speaking truth to power.” One Marine who showed up was looking for a little clarification on that concept.
With his plastic-frame glasses, balding head and department store tie, Franz Gayl looks no different from the tens of thousands of other mid-level federal workers who ply Washington’s national security bureaucracies. But Gayl was a Marine to the core. He loved the Marines so much he signed up twice, first as an enlisted man and then, after a few years on the outside, as an officer. After retiring as a major ….