David Gergen
David Gergen
David Richmond Gergenis an American political commentator and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He is currently a Senior Political Analyst for CNN and a Professor of Public Service and Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former Editor-at-Large of U.S. News and World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth9 May 1942
CountryUnited States of America
A man never benefits from going to a psychiatrist if the only reason he's there is because of his wife. You have to want to change from within.
If people stay that long, group-think can set in, and that's dangerous for a president.
There has been this legitimate concern that he has been isolated. It is a smart move on his part to do this. Presidents in the past have frequently called in the old guard. He gets the benefit of hearing different views and is seen as getting out the bubble.
Why a White House that was so adept in most of the first term has misjudged two or three big calls in its second term it's puzzling.
We know that second terms have historically been marred by hubris and by scandal.
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One cannot underestimate how widely admired Tom Daschle is in Washington for his integrity.
It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.
Ronald Reagan is clearly to television what Franklin Roosevelt was to radio.
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
There's a normal tendency in the campaign, during a crisis, for the country to rally around the White House. That may help Al Gore in this campaign, but on the other hand, George W. Bush handled himself so well the other night on foreign policy that I think it fortified him just before this crisis broke.
I don't have any problem with a reporter or a news person who says the President is uninformed on this issue or that issue. I don't think any of us would challenge that. I do have a problem with the singular focus on this, as if that's the only standard by which we ought to judge a president. What we learned in the last administration was how little having an encyclopedic grasp of all the facts has to do with governing.
Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.
If you've got some news that you don't want to get noticed, put it out Friday afternoon 4:00 pm.