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David Gergen Information

Critic, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and a counselor to the president - for 30 years, David Gergen has been an lively member in the American nationwide life. He served as a manager of infrastructure for President Reagan and held many positions in the administration of President Nixon and Ford. In 1993, he put his country before politics when he agreed to first serve as a counselor to President Clinton on both foreign policy and home affairs, then as special global advisor to the president and to the Secretary of State Warren Christopher. David Gergen now serves as an editor-at-large at the U.S. News & World Report. He is a lecturer and the director of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Gergen also regularly serves as an analyst on various news shows, and he is a frequent lecturer at venues around the world. He served as a moderator of World @ Large, the 13-part PBS discussion series, for the past two seasons. In the fall of 2000 he published a book titled, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.

In the past, Mr. Gergen has served in the White House as an consultant to four Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Most lately, he served for 18 months in the Clinton administration, first as therapist to the President and then as particular Advisor to the President and the Secretary of State. He returned to private life in January 1995. From 1984 to 1993, Mr. Gergen worked mostly as a journalist. For some two-and-a-half years, he was editor of U.S. News. Working with the owner and editor-in-chief Mortimer Zuckerman and a revived staff, he helped to guide the magazine to record gains in circulation and advertising. During that period, he also teamed up with Mark Shields for political commentary every Friday night for five years on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. The two were a well-liked political team and won numerous accolade for their political coverage. A national of Durham, N.C., Gergen is an honors measure off of Yale University and the Harvard Law School. He is a affiliate of the District of Columbia bar and an active part of many nonprofit boards, including the American Assembly, World Resources Institute, Kenan Institute for Ethics, firm for Public Service and National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. He is also chairman of the National Selection Committee for Innovations in American Government. In fall 2003 Gergen gave an Emens Professorship lecture at Ball State. In his message to students, he underscore statesmanship, civic responsibility and politeness - values that are sometimes difficult to discern in contemporary public dialogue. In honoring David Gergen with an voluntary degree, the university would be familiar with not only the exceptional values he models in management positions but also his many other aid to American national life.