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David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) is an American political commentator and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.〔(David Gergen, Master of The Game ), October 31, 1993, New York Times〕 He is currently a Senior Political Analyst for CNN〔Michael Kelly. 〕 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''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Gergen Biography )〕 and a contributor to CNN.com and ''Parade Magazine''. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil-Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN. Gergen joined the Nixon White House in 1971, as a staff assistant on the speech writing team, becoming Director of Speechwriting two years later. He served as Director of Communications for both Ford and Reagan, and as a senior advisor to Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher.〔Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.〕 As a commentator his admirers consider him an objective political voice because he has served in both Republican and Democratic administrations.〔 He graduated with honors from Yale and Harvard Law School, and has been awarded 25 honorary degrees. ==Early life== David Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, to Aubigne Munger (née Lermond) and John Jay Gergen, the former Chair of the Mathematics Department at Duke University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gergen Mathematics Lectures at Duke )〕 He is the youngest of four children, and one of his brothers, Kenneth J. Gergen, is a psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Swarthmore College Faculty Page )〕 For three summers, Gergen was an intern in the office of Governor Terry Sanford, where he became deeply involved in civil rights efforts. Gergen has called this work his “most satisfying experience in public service.” Gergen earned his bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1963 and was a member of the Manuscript Society. At Yale, he was editor-in-chief of the ''Yale Daily News'', whose staff at the time included Senator Joe Lieberman, Stephen Bingham, Robert G. Kaiser, and Paul Steiger.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Where Have You Gone, Joseph Lieberman? - The New Journal )〕 Gergen received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1967, and married Anne Elizabeth Gergen, a native of London, England, the same year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=David Gergen )〕 Gergen served in the U.S. Navy for three-and-a-half years and was stationed on a ship home-ported in Japan. Gergen writes in his book of his time as a damage control officer on a repair ship, the USS ''Ajax'': “Learning to control damage, it turned out, was the best possible preparation for my coming years in the White House”.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Gergen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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