David Gergen is a senior political analyst for CNN and has served as an adviser to four U.S. presidents. He is a professor of public service and the director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2000, he published the best-selling book, Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton.
100 Days of Fortitude
In The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph, Jonathan Alter makes the timely argument that "When democracy is threatened, our best leaders resist the temptation to run roughshod over Congress and the Constitution," David Gergen writes in the Boston Globe. To read his full review of the book, follow the link above.
Great to Good?
"If America is not to slip from great to good, we need civic leadership across the country to light fires and rally energies," David Gergen writes in the June 26, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report. "Greatness is not something that can be easily preserved; it has to be earned by each new generation...The question before us is whether the baby boom generation, now in power, has what it takes." Click the above link to read the full article.
Gergen exhorts Duke law grads to be "lawyer-statesmen"
On May 13, 2006, David Gergen told the garduates of Duke University Law School that "Public service is not something that you should postpone until you have made partner or are ready to retire and strike out on a new career. Public service should be what you do wherever you practice – you are there as a trustee of one of the most precious treasures that mankind has ever created – a system of laws and justice that binds us together." Click the above link to read the commencement address.
