David Gergen

2001 Season

A prominent national journalist, teacher and public lecturer, David Gergen is currently a professor of public service at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and co-director of the school's Center for Public Leadership. He is also editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and a regular analyst on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and Nightline. Gergen was born in Durham, North Carolina and discusses his book, Eyewitness to Power.

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Eyewitness to Power

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EYEWITNESS TO POWER
Chapter Nine: Riding the Roller Coaster

The Bill Clinton I found in the Oval Office that summer was very different from the fellow who had taken the oath in January. He had wanted to be a transformational president, he had told James MacGregor Burns and Georgia Sorenson shortly before his inauguration. Jefferson, Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, Kennedy -- they would be his models. "Not for eighty years -- not since Woodrow Wilson had come to office -- had a new president offered such a considered strategy of leadership," they wrote.

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