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David Gergen


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November 2006: 'It's a political debate, not a semantic debate or a theoretical debate,' says David Gergen, a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former adviser to four US presidents of both parties. 'In politics, the conventional wisdom has held for some time that if the public concludes our soldiers were in the middle of a civil war, they would think it hopeless and want to withdraw quickly.'

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1130/p01s02-ussc.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Kennedy School of Government, The John F. (KSG) Organization Feb 22, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) President William ("Bill") Jefferson Clinton Person Dec 1, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) President Gerald R. Ford Person Dec 1, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) President Richard M. Nixon Person Dec 1, 2006
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) President Ronald Wilson Reagan Person Dec 1, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Nov 30, 2006 Is Iraq a civil war? Scholars say yes. Media debate it.

QUOTE: Sensitive to bias charges, news outlets have avoided the term 'civil war,' [for Iraq--Ed.] but now that's changing.

 Christian Science Monitor
Feb 22, 2006 Embattled Harvard President To Resign

QUOTE: Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, announced yesterday that he will resign his post, bringing to close a stormy tenure in which the former Treasury secretary made impolitic remarks about women, alienated many black professors and repeatedly clashed with the faculty...

 Washington Post