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Gates' Assets Include Defense Stock
_ $91,000 in director fees from Parker Drilling Co.
_ $80,033 in director fees from Brinker International.
  Robert Gates, center, President Bush's choice to replace Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary, talks with former Sen. David Boren, D-Okla., right, and former Sen. Bob Dole, D-Kan., left., before the start of the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite - AP) 
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_ $64,749 in consulting fees from The Mitchell Group, an energy consulting group in Houston.
_ A $5,000 consulting fee from Temple Inland, a real estate firm in Austin, Texas.
Gates' report also lists positions he holds with nonprofit organizations.
Gates is a member of the boards of directors of the Boy Scouts of America in Irving, Texas, and the United Way of Brazos County in College Station, Texas. He is president of the National Eagle Scout Association in Irving and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Aspen Strategy Group and the Center for Strategic and International Studies Transnational Threat Project, all in Washington.
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