David Richmond Gergen is an American political commentator and former presidential advisor who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He is currently a Senior Political Analyst for CNN and a Professor of Public Service and CoDirector of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former EditoratLarge of U.S. News and World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awardsin 1988 with MacNeilLehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.
David Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina, to Aubigne Munger and John Jay Gergen, the former Chair of the Mathematics Department at Duke University. He is the youngest of four children, and one of his brothers, Kenneth J. Gergen, is a psychologist and professor at Swarthmore College. One of his other brothers was Stephen L Gergen.
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