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Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, where his father taught mathematics at Duke University. He graduated with honors from both Yale College (1963) and Harvard Law School (1967), and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy for nearly three and a half years, posted to a ship in Japan.
Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, a group of heavyweights that included Pat Buchanan, Ben Stein, and Bill Safire. Two years later, he took over as director. Gergen went on to become the Director of Communications for Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, a counselor on domestic and foreign affairs for Bill Clinton and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, and an adviser to the 1980 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign.
In his private life, Gergen works as a political journalist and analyst. He was the first managing editor of Public Opinion, a magazine affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute, and from 1985-1986 he worked as an editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he remains an editor-at-large. Gergen's career in television began in 1985, when he joined the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour for Friday night discussions of politics. Today, he appears frequently on CNN as an analyst for Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer.
Gergen joined the Harvard faculty in 1999. He is active as a speaker on leadership and sits on many boards, including Teach for America, the Aspen Institute, and Duke University, where he taught from 1995-1999. He is a member of the Washington D.C. Bar and the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds 18 honorary degrees.
Gergen has been married since 1967 to Anne Gergen of England. She is a family therapist and they live in Cambridge, Mass. They have two children, Christopher and Katherine, and four grandchildren.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Can the U.S. still compete? SHARE
President Obama promises to focus his State of the Union tonight on one of the most important domestic questions we have faced in years. Whether he will succeed in moving the nation forward will depend not only on his own leadership but on the willingness of others -- the left, the right and the media -- to put the country first.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
CNN Plans Comprehensive Coverage of State of the Union Address, GOP Response SHARE
CNN and The best political team on television will cover President Obama's 2011 State of The Union Speech.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
JFK50: Kennedy's Idealism and Today's Generation -- David Gergen SHARE
Advisor to four Presidents of The United States and Harvard Kennedy School Professor David Gergen talks about the way in which President Kennedy saw that "there were better ways to live" and what that means to today's generation.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
What More Must We Do? SHARE
Statement from David Gergen regarding the Tucson Arizona memorial held January 12, 2011.
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