David Richmond Gergen was born on May 9,1942 and is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.
23 Facts About David Gergen
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David Gergen is currently a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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David Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech-writing team, becoming director of speechwriting two years later.
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David Gergen served as director of communications for both Ford and Reagan, and as a senior adviser to Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
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David Gergen graduated with honors from Yale and Harvard Law School, and has been awarded 27 honorary degrees.
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David Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, to John Jay Gergen, the chairman of the mathematics department at Duke University from 1937 to 1966, and Aubigne Munger.
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David Gergen is the youngest of four children, and one of his brothers, Kenneth J Gergen, is a psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College.
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David Gergen was educated at Durham High School, a former public high school in his hometown of Durham, North Carolina, where he edited the school newspaper, Hi-Rocket.
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For three summers, David Gergen was an intern in the office of North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, where he became deeply involved in civil rights efforts.
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In 1974 Gergen took a brief hiatus from the White House to write speeches for Treasury Secretary William E Simon.
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In 1993 David Gergen returned to the White House, serving as counselor to President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
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Currently, David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and often appears on Anderson Cooper 360 and Erin Burnett OutFront.
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David Gergen has written for Parade Magazine and has been published in an array of other publications including The New York Times and Newsweek.
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David Gergen taught at Duke University from 1995 to 1999 and then joined the Harvard University faculty in 1999.
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David Gergen is currently a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he teaches courses on leadership, public service, and US politics.
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David Gergen served as the inaugural Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Elon University and was a fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics in 1984.
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David Gergen is the author of the New York Times bestseller book Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton, published in 2000.
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David Gergen argues that, as the 21st century begins, the success of the United States as a country will depend heavily upon the success of a new generation in power.
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In 2022, David Gergen was working on a new book about renewing America's political culture.
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David Gergen has been married since 1967 to Anne Elizabeth David Gergen, who is a family therapist.
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David Gergen has been active on many non-profit boards, and has served on the boards of Yale and Duke Universities.
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David Gergen is a member of the DC Bar, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the North American executive committee for the Trilateral Commission.
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David Gergen serves as an advisor to the following groups:.