You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

). S. Panetta was instrumental in creating CSU Monterey Bay by converting Fort Ord where he was chief of operations and planning of the intelligence section when he was in the army into the university.

On April 28 2011 Obama announced the nomination of Panetta as Defense Secretary when Robert Gates retired. He is the founder of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy served as DistinguiLeon Panettad Scholar to Chancellor Charles B. Leon Edward Panetta (born June 28 1938) is an American politician lawyer and professor.