Michael John Gerson was an American journalist and speechwriter.
14 Facts About Michael Gerson
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Michael Gerson was a neoconservative op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, a Policy Fellow with One Campaign, a visiting fellow with the Center for Public Justice, and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Michael Gerson served as President George W Bush's chief speechwriter from 2001 until June 2006, as a senior policy advisor from 2000 through June 2006, and was a member of the White House Iraq Group.
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Michael Gerson was born on May 15,1964, in Belmar, New Jersey, and raised in an Evangelical Christian family in St Louis, Missouri.
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Michael Gerson attended Georgetown University for a year and then transferred to Wheaton College in Illinois, graduating in 1986.
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Michael Gerson worked at one point as a ghostwriter for Charles Colson.
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Michael Gerson joined the Bush campaign before 2000 as a speechwriter and went on to head the White House speechwriting team.
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On June 14,2006, it was announced that Michael Gerson was leaving the White House to pursue other writing and policy work.
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Michael Gerson was replaced as Bush's chief speechwriter by The Wall Street Journal chief editor William McGurn.
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Michael Gerson was credited with coining such phrases as "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and "the armies of compassion".
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On May 16,2007, Michael Gerson began his tenure as a twice-weekly columnist for the Washington Post.
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Michael Gerson was adopted by an American family when she was six years old and raised in the Midwestern United States.
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Michael Gerson suffered from major depressive disorder, for which he was hospitalized at least once.
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Michael Gerson died from kidney cancer at a hospital in Washington, DC, on November 17,2022, at age 58.