Biography

A veteran CNN contributor and longtime Washington insider who served both Republican and Democratic presidents.

Columnist and political advisor.

First started working at the White House in 1971, where he started on the speech writing staff for President Richard Nixon within two years, he was leading the department.

He also was professor of public service and founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.

[on the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Environmental Accord, 2017] Some seventy years ago, the Unites States entered an international agreement called the Marshall Plan, when we came to aid the of Europe, and it was one of the noblest acts in human history. Today we walked away from the rest of the world, and it's one of the most shameful acts in our history.