David Gergen, ex-adviser to Republican and Democratic presidents, dies aged 83 | US politics
David Gergen, a Washington politics veteran and four presidential advisors, died in a career that lasted for decades in the Republican and Democrat, the government, the academy and the media. He was 83 years old.
Tergen was known for a line that he called for the presidential candidate Ronald Reagan for a TV discussion with the best Jimmy Carter: “Are you better than four years ago?”
The question hit the nerve in a nation in which inflation and pledge crisis in Iran. The answer is no and Reagan won the White House.
Gergen then “Rhetoric questions have a great power. Sometimes one of the things you hit gold. When panhandling in the river, you sometimes get a golden bullion.”
In addition to other roles, Gergen served as Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Reagan and Bill Clinton and served as the speaker, communication director and consultant to the President.
After working at the US Navy in the 1960s, he entered politics, in 1971, as a speech writer assistant for Nixon, he rose rapidly to become the director of speaking writing two years later. Later, he served as the Senior Advisor to both Ford and Reagan, Communication Director and Clinton and Foreign Minister Warren Christopher.
He directed a successful media career among the clues in the government, worked as an editor at the US News & World Report, with Macneil/Lehrer Newshour and CNN and CBS in PBS.
In 2000, Power To Power: The essence of leadership: From Nixon to Clinton, he published a memory of his time in the government. Thinking about his time in the White House, he wrote several basic elements that a leader should have.
They contain internal mastery; The center based on moral values is an attractive purpose; The capacity of persuasion; The ability to work within the system; A definite, fast start; strong, cautious consultants; And a passion that inspires others to maintain their duty.
In a second book, Hearts touched with Fire: How great leaders were made two years later: “Our greatest leaders emerged from both the good times and the more challenging ones.
North Carolina was a graduate of Gergen, Yale and Harvard Law Faculty, and after his political career, he returned to the Harvard Kennedy School to establish a Public Leadership Center. During his career, he received 27 honorary degrees.
After his transition was announced late on Friday, his former colleagues stated his bilateralness and cooperation capacity.
Al Gore, who served as Clinton’s Vice President, published X as follows: “In the countless ways when David Gergen contributed to our great country, I will remember him the most, his devotion to everyone he worked with, his solid judgment and the world to do good in the world.”
Jeremy Weinstein of the Harvard Kennedy School, Gergen, “his life is dedicated to those who try to serve to serve,” he said.
Gergen’s daughter Katherine Gergen Barnett’e after the November 2024 elections, “We are going through a period of fear. We have been tested, now we have been tested, but we have to realize that politics in our country is like a pendulum,” he said.
A month later, when Gergen’s diagnosis of dementia was explained, he wrote his thoughts. A column for Boston Globe.
Gergen said, ‘Life is now as terrible as it is in the public sphere, there is still a reason to believe in our country and leadership and to enter service, ”he said. “‘Americans can withstand any crisis, but they need to continue to take a sense of responsibility for their countries.”
