Biography

May 9, 1942 · Durham, North Carolina, USA

David Richmond Gergen

Columnist and political advisor.

[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.