WASHINGTON - Mr William Gates Sr, a lawyer raised in the Great Depression who helped his son give away an immense fortune, has died. He was 94.
"I never imagined that the frequently argumentative little boy I faced each night at dinner, the one eating my food and using my name, was to be my future employer," Mr Gates said in a 2003 speech to fellow members of Rotary International, a worldwide service organisation. In the book, he also recounted getting an appeal from his son and his son's wife, Melinda. They had learned that many children die each year from illnesses that are rarely fatal in developed countries, such as measles, malaria and diarrhoea."Dad, maybe we could do something about this?" they wrote.
Over dinner in 1980, he helped his son recruit a friend from Harvard University, Mr Steve Ballmer, to work for Microsoft. Mr Ballmer left graduate school and later became chief executive officer of the Redmond, Washington-based company. He enlisted in the US Army during World War II in 1944 and served in Hokkaido, Japan, and Tokyo after the Japanese surrender.
PARENTAL DISCIPLINE Once, the younger Gates dawdled in his room as the family waited in the car. His mother asked what he was doing."I'm thinking, mother," he replied, according to his father's recollection."Don't YOU ever think?"
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