A veteran David Gargan of Washington’s politics and the consultant of four presidents from both sides have died. He was 83 years old.
Gargan died on Thursday, his son Christopher confirmed CBS News.
In politics, Gargan’s career spread for decades, who were working in the administration of former presidents Richard Nixon, Garald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Over the years, he served as a consultant to a speech writer, Director of Communications and President in other roles. He also acted as a vast media commentator.
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Jeremy Wenstein, Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, with a long relationship with Gargan, told the Associated Press that Gargan died of a long illness. Gargan dedicated the decades of his life to serve those who demanded to serve, “said Hannah Relay Bows, a former director of the school’s Center for Public Leadership, said Hanna Riley Bowls, where Gargan was the founding director.
Riley Bowls told AP, “David was a princely leader of unmatched character, integrity and kindness, who chose to see goodness in every person he found.”
Al Gor, who served as the vice -president of Clinton, Posted on X“David Gargon made his great kind of contributing to our great country, which I will remember him, he was the most his kindness for his kindness, his sound decisions, and his devotion to good in the world.”
David Richmond Gargen was born in North Carolina and graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School, according to a biography on the website of Harvard Kennedy School. He will proceed to obtain 27 honorary degrees during his career.
Gargan established the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School and according to the school website, remained as a professor of public service emeritus until his death.
After serving the US Navy in the 1960s, Gargan took his first White House job in 1971, serving as a speech writing assistant for Nixon. Bupertisship and cooperation were his long -career hallmarks, who said on social media on Friday.
He was also a media personality who worked as a senior political analyst for CNN. In his 2022 book, “Hearts Touching with Fire: How Great Leaders became,” he wrote: “Our biggest leader has emerged from both good times and, more often, to challenging people … the very best difficult calls that can eventually change the course of history.”
In 2022, the then 79 -year -old Gargan Said with “CBS Sunday Morning,” where he expressed an alarm about the situation of American democracy.
“We cannot continue on the path we are running; it is unstable,” he said. “This is understanding that we, eg, in a car, at midnight, on the edge of a rock, with rain falling, and no headlight.”
Mark Douglas, director of the Douglas Funeral Home in Lexington, Massachusetts, set a private burial for the Mount Obern Cemetery on Monday. Douglas said that a large memorial service in Harvard will be held in the coming weeks.
