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David Gergen, trusted Washington stalwart who advised 4 presidents, dead at 83

July 11, 2025
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David Gergen, who worked for four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, before becoming an academic and political TV pundit, has died.

He was 83. 

Gergen died in a retirement home in Massachusetts on July 10, his son said, according to several outlets. 

The Washington, D.C., veteran had been suffering from Lewy body dementia, his son said. 

Those who knew and admired Gergen took to X to express their condolences. 

Former California first lady Maria Shriver wrote on X: “David Gergen was total professional and a really kind man. My thoughts are with his family. He loved politics and he loved being in service to this country.”

“RIP, Mr. Gergen,” CBS reporter Robert Costa wrote. 

Former Democratic Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. wrote: “We lost a good one, a really good one – RIP, my friend David Gergen.” 

Gergen came up with the line that then-candidate Reagan said in the 1980 election: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” according to The New York Times. 

David Gergen speaking at the Jefferson Awards.
Longtime political TV analyst and academic David Gergen died July 10 at a retirement home in Massachusetts at the age of 83. Larry French
President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and David Gergen at a press conference.
Before getting involved as a political TV pundit, Gergen worked with four former Presidents: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. AFP via Getty Images

He later said of the line: “Rhetorical questions have great power.” 

Of his time with the Nixon administration, Gergen told the Washington Post in 1981, “I was young, and I was too naive. It hardened me up a lot. It was an extremely difficult experience emotionally, in terms of belief in people.” 

After leaving public office, Gergen worked as an editor and columnist, as well as for the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the liberal Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Arianne Huffington and David Gergen at a conference on restoring corporate integrity and public trust.
Gergen’s son said the Washington, D.C., veteran had been suffering from Lewy body dementia. Getty Images

He was also a commentator for PBS, CNN and NPR. 

“To say that I rely on him is an understatement,” Reagan’s White House Chief of Staff, James A. Baker III, told The Washington Post in 1981.

“He’s the best conceptualizer, in terms of communications strategy, that we have.”

The post David Gergen, trusted Washington stalwart who advised 4 presidents, dead at 83 appeared first on New York Post.

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