18 Facts About Doug Wead

Roy Douglas Wead was an American conservative commentator and writer.

In 1992, Wead was the Republican candidate for Arizona's 6th congressional district, but was defeated by the Democratic candidate, Karan English.

Between 1997 and 2000, Wead recorded several hours of phone conversations between himself and George W Bush without Bush's knowledge.

Doug Wead attended Riley High School, in South Bend, Indiana, then graduated from Canyonville Bible Academy, a private boarding school in Canyonville, Oregon, in 1964.

In 1990, Doug Wead was given an honorary degree from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In 1979, Doug Wead gave a speech titled "The Compassionate Conservative" at the annual Charity Awards Dinner, and tapes of the speech were later sold at corporate seminars.

In 1992, Doug Wead was the Republican candidate for US Congress in Arizona's 6th congressional district, despite having lived in Arizona for only two years.

Doug Wead won the Republican nomination by proposing a tax limit and airing a television commercial featuring praise by former President Ronald Reagan for his humanitarian efforts.

Doug Wead countered that Goldwater's support of abortion rights spurred the unexpected crossing of party lines.

Doug Wead was a senior adviser to the Ron Paul 2012 Campaign, and the Rand Paul 2016 campaign.

Doug Wead wrote the 2019 book Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, published November 2019 by Center Street, an imprint of Hachette Book Group.

Former Obama administration members denied this, and responded that Doug Wead was likely referring to the "Principals Committee" meetings of senior national security and Cabinet members.

Doug Wead confirmed that this was so, and blamed his false assertion on "a misunderstanding between him and his source".

Benton and Doug Wead were both charged with one count of conspiracy to solicit and cause an illegal campaign contribution by a foreign national, effect a conduit contribution, and cause false records to be filed with the FEC, one count of contribution by a foreign national, one count of contribution in the name of another and three counts of making false entries in an official record.

In 1987, Doug Wead began tape recording members of the Bush family, with their permission, providing a historical record of the family.

Doug Wead stated that he wanted to create an ongoing record of Bush as a historical figure.

In February 2005, a month after Bush was sworn into office for his second term as president, Doug Wead revealed the existence of the tapes to The New York Times, and publicly released twelve excerpts from them, each one ranging in length from five minutes to half an hour.

Doug Wead insisted that the taping was legal, having been made only in US states where there was no law against taping someone without their consent.