From the article in the WSJ I predict this guy isnt going to burn anyone. He bashed both sides equally so dont expect any great revelations.
Oh, but he has -- a conservative Texas A&M student, a member of the Corps of Cadets, who had a small Confederate-flag decal on his footlocker. Gates sent word down from the university president's office, for that kid to get that sticker off there right this minute or he'd be kicked out of the Corps.
Gates is a WASPirant mandarin from Kansas (BA '65 William & Mary, MA '66 U. of Indiana, Ph.D. '74 Georgetown, Russian & Soviet history) and spits on crackers. Moreover, he was running Poppy Bush's campaign to make over Texas A&M into the Yale of the Southwest. (Poppy went to Yale, Skull and Bones, legacy's-legacy frat-boy, and all that ubersnot stuff.)
Gates's latest successor as president of A&M is a Cubana who never even lived in the U.S. until she was appointed. How 'bout that? That's Manor Bush at work, being all broad-gauged and international and all.