MELISSA BLOCK, Host: Apparently the hardest name in the world to remember this week has been Robert. As in Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who also goes by Bob, you'd think that would be even easier to remember. Well, in a "60 Minutes" report on Sunday about the war in Afghanistan, a soldier at Camp Leatherneck introduced the secretary as Bill Gates. He seemed to take it all in stride.</s>ROBERT GATES: Bill Gates is the really rich one.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: Well, if there's one place where they should get his name right, it would be the Pentagon, right? He is the boss after all. Sadly, no. At a Tuesday ceremony at the Pentagon, he was called Ronald Gates and that brings us to Secretary Gates' boss, President Obama. He pointed out the defense secretary just before his big speech today and yep, he got it wrong too.</s>BARACK OBAMA: We have our CIA Director Leon Panetta. We have our Secretary of Defense William Gates.</s>MELISSA BLOCK, Host: So far, we've found no truth to the rumor that Vice President Joe Biden calls Secretary Gates, little Bobby.
President Obama recognized his defense secretary just before his speech on national security Thursday, pointing him out and calling him ... William Gates? Robert Gates was also misidentified at a Pentagon ceremony Tuesday.