Word: gergen
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...University of Oklahoma proposed names and narrowed the list down to about 100. The final choices were then made by a national committee of two dozen people. “It’s a very strong selection committee,” said CPL Director David R. Gergen, who co-chaired the committee with University of Southern California professor Warren Bennis. “It is composed of former honorees as well as faculty members from universities across the country and an assortment of others who have been interested in the project.” The CPL also recently published...
...Gergen, David • McCain is advised to "see if you can leave this with your honor intact" by •McCain's debate performance is described as "almost an exercise in anger management...
...engaged and sophisticated player than the avuncular image he cultivated. It is widely believed that Presidents who are good at handling people, who have high emotional intelligence, stand a better chance of pushing their agendas through. But "we put so much emphasis on character because of Nixon," says David Gergen, an adviser to four Presidents. "Until Bush came along, we'd forgotten how important judgment also...
...When Obama sneered to Hillary that she was "likable enough," when he talks about feelings rather than feeling them, when a voter tells him about a tragedy and he pivots into policy, it can make you wonder where his real passions lie. "You have to have a fire inside," Gergen says, "an ambition for the nation, an internal, fierce desire for change, for new accomplishments, higher goals...
...baiting. But it's tricky when the attacks wander into the neighborhood of racial stereotypes, like the McCain "Celebrity" ad linking Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, which had a whiff of lock-up-your-women alarmism about the sexual power of black men. The usually somnolent David Gergen lashed out at McCain's ad portraying Obama as the Messiah, calling it a subtle but intentional effort to paint a black man as The Other. "It's the subtext of this campaign; everybody knows that," Gergen said. "As a native of the South, I can tell you, when...