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Though he became familiar as an even-toned commentator on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, he has spent most of his time since as an editor at U.S. News & World Report. Gergen was a weak editor who often showed up late for meetings and preferred long, drawn-out sessions, sometimes late at night, at which he sought to forge impossible consensus on story ideas. His casual management style led in part to his replacement in 1988, when he became editor-at-large...
...Gergen befriended the Clintons nearly a decade ago at "Renaissance Weekend," an annual New Year's retreat on Hilton Head Island in which an eclectic group of influential people swap stories of personal growth along with their business cards. Both policy wonks, the two men never heard a debate they didn't want to join, and tend to forget that the clock is running. "Just like the White House has 'Clinton Standard Time,' " said a U.S. News staff member last week, "we have Gergen time...
...David Gergen: Sharing the boss's habits...
This went on for so long that after half an hour passed without the door opening, the President's newest aide, David Gergen, who had hinted to reporters that Clinton was dropping Guinier's nomination, told reporters phoning him on deadline that he could no longer say for sure what would happen...
...private dinner studded with senior Republicans, the mood was much different. Clinton's latest humiliation had infused a sense of quiet pride in G.O.P. elders, who saw the Administration's breakdown as a vindication of Republican competence. More than that, Clinton's drafting of a former Republican operative, Gergen, to help bail out the White House image machinery was delicious irony. Joked one Republican lobbyist: "I'm telling a lot of my Democratic friends that if they need to get to Gergen, I'll be glad to help them...