William Bennett
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William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist, who served as Secretary of Education from 1985 to 1988 under President Ronald Reagan.
He also held the post of Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under George H. W. Bush.
Early life and education
Bennett was born July 31, 1943 to a Catholic family in Brooklyn, the son of Nancy (née Walsh), a medical secretary, and F. Robert Bennett, a banker. His family moved to Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School. He graduated from Williams College in 1965, where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Society, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in political philosophy in 1970. He also has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, graduating in 1971.
Personal life
In 1967, as a graduate student, Bennett went on a single blind date with Janis Joplin. He later lamented, “That date lasted two hours, and I’ve spent 200 hours talking about it."
Bennett married his wife, Mary Elayne Glover, in 1982. They have two sons, John and Joseph. Elayne is the president and founder of Best Friends Foundation, a national program promoting sexual abstinence among adolescents.
Bennett is the younger brother of Washington attorney Robert S. Bennett.
Career
Bennett served as an associate dean of Boston University from 1971 to 1972, and then became an assistant professor of philosophy and an assistant to John Silber, the college's president, from 1972 to 1976. After the death of its founder Charles Frankel in May 1979, Bennett became the director of the National Humanities Center, a private research facility in North Carolina.
Bennett was appointed by President Reagan in 1981 to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), where he served until Reagan appointed him secretary of education in 1985. Mel Bradford had been selected to the position by Reagan, but Bennett was eventually dismissed in his place due to Bradford's pro-Confederate views. This was later characterized as the watershed in the divergence between paleoconservatives who favored Bradford and neoconservatives led by Irving Kristol, who favored Bennett.
Bennett, a 63-page study, published "To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Humanities in Higher Education." It was based on an analysis of the teaching and learning of the humanities at the Baccalaureate level, conducted by a blue-ribbon research team of 31 nationally recognized experts on higher education convened by the NEH.
Bennett jumped from the Democratic to the Republican Party in May 1986. Bennett resigned as education secretary in September 1988, to join Dunnels, Duvall, Bennett, and Porter, a Washington law firm. He returned to the federal government in March 1989 as the first Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which was named by President George H. Bush. In a 97–2 vote, he was confirmed by the Senate. In December 1990, he took over the position.
Bennett launched Morning in America, a nationally syndicated radio program produced and distributed by Dallas, Texas-based Salem Communications, in April 2004. The program aired live weekdays from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and it was one of the few nationally syndicated conservative talk shows in the morning drive time slot. However, its clearances were limited due to a show's popularity, and the show obtained the bulk of its clearances on Salem-owned outlets, but not so much. On Channel 144, also known as the Patriot Channel, Morning in America was carried on Sirius Satellite Radio in America. Bennett resigned from full-time radio on March 31, 2016.
Bennett joined Beyond the Politics, a CNN weekly talk show, in 2008. Bennett did not have a long career, but he remained a CNN contributor until he was fired in 2013 by then-new CNN president Jeff Zucker.
Since January 2018, Bennett has been moderating The Wise Guys, a Fox News Sunday night program. Participants on Fox Nation include Tyrus, Byron York, Ari Fleischer, Victor Davis Hanson, and others.
Bennett, a former senior editor of National Review Online, National Review, and Commentary, is a writer for National Review Online, National Review, and Commentary.
Bennett is a member of the Center for Security Policy's National Security Advisory Council (CSP). He was co-director of Empower America and a Distinguished Fellow in Cultural Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. He is now an author and speaker who has long been involved in Republican party politics in the United States.
Bennett, a Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute, was a Washington Fellow. He served as a CNN analyst before 2013.
He is an advisor to Project Lead the Way and Beanstalk Innovation. He serves on the board of directors of Udacity, Inc., Viridis Learning, Inc., and the board of directors of Vocefy, Inc. and Webtab, Inc.
Bennett's Bill Bennett Show was a podcast released in 2017.
Bennett spoke on the phone with then-President Donald Trump right before Trump marched to the "Save America" rally that preceded the Capitol assault, according to internal White House documents from January 6, 2021.