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Value strength of character over brainpower in public leadership, former presidential advisor David Gergen urged a 550-member audience at the Institute of Politics (IOP) ARCO Forum last night...
...David Gergen, who in one way or another has served every president from Nixon to Clinton, offers a shrewd, balanced look at Nixon in his new book, "Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership." Gergen describes Nixon's mysterious bright side/dark side personality - a bully and political crook, much given to anti-Semitic rant, who at the same time was a visionary in foreign policy (China and all of that), far more progressive in domestic matters than anyone remembers, and, before self-destructing, "among the best of modern presidents...
...Government says it will open a new center in the fall of 2000 devoted to the study of public leadership. The center, which Kennedy School Dean Joseph S. Nye Jr. cites as one of the major accomplishments of his tenure, will be led by Public Service Professor David R. Gergen, a former White House adviser, and by Ronald A. Heifetz, a lecturer in public policy...
While there are currently no plans for undergraduates to play a role in the center, Gergen and Heifetz said they would welcome such involvement in the future...
...both Gergen and Heifetz said was instrumental in pushing for the new center, called the center "one of my highest priorities as dean" in a statement yesterday...