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David Gergen, ex-adviser to Republican and Democratic presidents, dies aged 83

Edward Helmore

created: July 12, 2025, 10:48 p.m. | updated: July 13, 2025, 3:43 p.m.

David Gergen, a veteran of Washington politics and an adviser to four presidents, Republican and Democrat, in a career spanning decades in government, academia and media, has died. Gergen later reflected that “rhetorical questions have great power. He later served as director of communications for both Ford and Reagan, and as a senior adviser to Clinton and secretary of state Warren Christopher. In 2000, he published Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership: Nixon to Clinton, a memoir of his time in government. Gergen reportedly told his daughter Katherine Gergen Barnett after the November 2024 election that “we are going through a period of fear.

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