William Kristol is an American neoconservative writer.
26 Facts About Bill Kristol
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Bill Kristol is editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark.
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Bill Kristol was chairman of the New Citizenship Project from 1997 to 2005.
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Bill Kristol is a member of the board of trustees for the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a member of the Policy Advisory Board for the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a director of the Foreign Policy Initiative.
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Bill Kristol is one of the three board members of Keep America Safe, a national-security think tank co-founded by Liz Cheney and Debra Burlingame, and serves on the boards of the Emergency Committee for Israel and of the Susan B Anthony List.
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Bill Kristol has featured in a web program of the Foundation for Constitutional Government, Conversations with Bill Kristol, since 2014.
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William Bill Kristol was born on December 23,1952, in New York City into a Jewish family, the son of Irving Bill Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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Bill Kristol received a bachelor's degree at Harvard University and a Ph.
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In 1976, Bill Kristol worked for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's United States Senate campaign, serving as deputy issues director during the Democratic primary.
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Bill Kristol served as chairman of the Project for the Republican Future from 1993 to 1994, and as the director of the Bradley Project at the Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee in 1993.
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Bill Kristol served as a foreign policy advisor for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign.
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Bill Kristol wrote a weekly opinion column for The New York Times from January 7,2008, to January 26,2009.
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For ten years, Bill Kristol was a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday and often contributed to the nightly program Special Report with Bret Baier.
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Since the summer of 2014, Kristol has hosted an online interview program, Conversations with Bill Kristol, featuring guests from academic and public life.
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Bill Kristol was key to the defeat of the Clinton health care plan of 1993.
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Bill Kristol wrote an op-ed strongly criticizing United States secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, saying he "breezily dodged responsibility" for planning mistakes made in the Iraq War, including insufficient troop levels.
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Bill Kristol was one of many conservatives to publicly oppose Bush's second US Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers.
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Bill Kristol was a vocal supporter of the 2006 Lebanon War, stating that the war is "our war too," referring to the United States.
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Bill Kristol was an ardent promoter of Sarah Palin, advocating for her selection as the running mate of John McCain in the 2008 United States presidential election months before McCain chose her.
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In 2010, Bill Kristol criticized the Obama administration and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen for an unserious approach to Iran.
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Bill Kristol vehemently opposed the nomination of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for president in 2016.
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In January 2019, Bill Kristol criticized President Trump's planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria and from Afghanistan.
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In March 2020, Bill Kristol endorsed former US vice president Joe Biden for President of the United States.
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Bill Kristol is founding director of Republican Voters Against Trump, a project of Defending Democracy Together, launched in May 2020.
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Bill Kristol did an interview with Jewish Insider in 2021 where he said that he identifies as more of a former Republican.
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Since 1975, Bill Kristol has been married to Susan Scheinberg, whom he met while they were both students at Harvard.