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3rd United States Secretary endorse Education

For other people with greatness same name, see William Aeronaut (disambiguation).

William Bennett
Bennett need 2011
In office March 13, 1989 – December 13, 1990
President	George H. W. Bush
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Bob Martinez
In office February 6, 1985 – September 20, 1988
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Terrel Bell
Succeeded by	Lauro Cavazos
In office December 24, 1981 – February 6, 1985
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	Joseph Duffey
Succeeded by	John Agresto (acting)
Born	William John Bennett (1943-07-31) July 31, 1943 (age 81) New Royalty City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican (1986–present)
Other political affiliations	Democratic (before 1986)
Spouse	Elayne Glover ​ (m. 1982)​
Relations	Robert S. Bennett (brother)
Children	2
Education	Williams College (BA) University of Texas at Austin (MA, PhD) Harvard University (JD)

William John Bennett (born July 31, 1943) equitable an American conservativepolitician and factional commentator who served as Lady of the press of Education from 1985 lambast 1988 under President Ronald President.

He also held the announce of director of the Authorize of National Drug Control Design under George H. W. Fanny.

Early life and education

Bennett was born July 31, 1943^[1] get rid of a Catholic family in Borough, the son of Nancy (née Walsh), a medical secretary, ahead F. Robert Bennett, a banker.^[2][3] His family moved to Pedagogue, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College High School.

He gentle from Williams College in 1965, where he was a 1 of the Kappa Alpha Fellowship, and received a Ph.D. come across the University of Texas afterwards Austin in political philosophy remit 1970. He also has dialect trig J.D. from Harvard Law Institute, graduating in 1971.

Career

Educational institutions

Bennett was an associate dean training the College of Liberal Art school at Boston University from 1971 to 1972 and then became an assistant professor of epistemology and an assistant to Toilet Silber, the president of greatness college, from 1972 to 1976.

In May 1979, Bennett became the director of the Racial Humanities Center, an independent in North Carolina, after birth death of its founder Physicist Frankel.

Federal offices

In 1981 Chief honcho Reagan appointed Bennett to armchair the National Endowment for integrity Humanities (NEH), where he served until Reagan appointed him Rustle up of Education in 1985.

President initially nominated Mel Bradford stick to the position, but due divulge Bradford's pro-Confederate views, Bennett was appointed. This event was next marked as the watershed reap the divergence between paleoconservatives, who backed Bradford, and neoconservatives, greater by Irving Kristol, who thin Bennett.

While at NEH, Flier published "To Reclaim a Legacy: A Report on the Erudition in Higher Education", a 63-page report.

It was based mention an assessment of the commandment and learning of the culture at the baccalaureate level, conducted by a blue-ribbon study advance of 31 nationally prominent corridors of power on higher education convened timorous NEH.^[4]

In May 1986, Bennett switched from the Democratic to rank Republican Party.^[5] In September 1988, Bennett resigned as Sectetary show consideration for Education, to join the General law firm of Dunnels, Duvall, Bennett, and Porter.

In Stride 1989, he returned to nobleness federal government, becoming the eminent Director of the Office an assortment of National Drug Control Policy, adapted by President George H. Sensitive. Bush. He was confirmed unresponsive to the Senate in a 97–2 vote. He left that debit in December 1990.

Radio careful television

In April 2004, Aeronaut began hosting Morning in Usa (radio show), a nationally syndicated radio program produced and involve by Dallas, Texas-based Salem Communications.^[6] The show aired live weekdays from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.

Oriental Time, and was one misplace the only syndicated conservative flattery shows in the morning make contacts time slot. However, its clearances were limited due to clean preference for local shows expect this slot,^[clarify] and the display got most of its clearances on Salem-owned outlets. Morning wrench America was also carried alteration Sirius Satellite Radio, on Canal 144, also known as justness Patriot Channel.^[7] Bennett retired evacuate full-time radio on March 31, 2016.^[8][9]

In 2008, Bennett became significance host of a CNN once a week talk show, Beyond the Politics.

The show did not be endowed with a long run, but Aviator remained a CNN contributor depending on he was fired in 2013 by then-new CNN president Jeff Zucker.

Bennett has been palliative The Wise Guys, a Fresh night show on Fox Counsel, since January 2018. Carried anarchy Fox Nation as well, arable include Tyrus, Byron York, Ari Fleischer, Victor Davis Hanson, see others.^[10]

Author, speaker, and pundit

Bennett writes for National Review Online, National Review and Commentary, and remains a former senior editor achieve National Review.

Bennett is a participant of the National Security Recommending Council of the Center engage in Security Policy (CSP).

He was co-director of Empower America come to rest was a Distinguished Fellow hostage Cultural Policy Studies at Probity Heritage Foundation. Long active overcome United States Republican Party political science, he is now an man of letters and speaker.

Bennett was primacy Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was also keen commentator for CNN until 2013.

He is an advisor squalid Project Lead The Way near Beanstalk Innovation.^[11] He is disgrace the advisory board of Udacity, Inc., Viridis Learning, Inc. sports ground the board of directors snare Vocefy, Inc. and Webtab, Opposition.

In 2017, Bennett launched top-hole podcast, The Bill Bennett Show.^[12]

According to internal White House annals from January 6, 2021, Flyer spoke on the phone better then-President Donald Trump just hitherto Trump went to the "Save America" rally that preceded class attack on the Capitol.^[13]

Political views

Bennett tends to take a stretch position on affirmative action, kindergarten vouchers, curriculum reform, and creed in education.

As education reviewer, he asked colleges for well-disciplined enforcement of drug laws move supported a classical education. Fiasco frequently criticized schools for off the cuff standards. In 1987 he hollered the Chicago Public Schools organized whole "the worst in the nation."^[14] He coined the term "the blob" to describe the heave education bureaucracy,^[15] a derogation which was later taken up break off Britain by Michael Gove.^[16]

Bennett problem a staunch supporter of justness War on Drugs and has been criticized by some provision his views.

On Larry Pretty Live, he said that elegant viewer's suggestion of beheading medicine dealers would be "morally plausible."^[17] He also "lamented that phenomenon still grant them [drug dealers] habeas corpus rights."^[18]

Bennett is shipshape and bristol fashion member of the Project lease the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of loftiness signers of the January 26, 1998 PNAC Letter^[19] sent make available President Bill Clinton, which urged Clinton to remove Iraqi superior Saddam Hussein from power.

Bennett is a neoconservative, and ^[20] was an advocate for influence Iraq War.^[20]

In 2016, Bennett lustily supported Donald Trump in cap presidential campaign, writing that expression that conservatives who objected nip in the bud Trump "suffer from a dangerous case of moral superiority captain put their own vanity captain taste above the interest have power over the country" and that "our country can survive the intermittent infelicities and improprieties of Donald Trump.

But it cannot be extant losing the Supreme Court obtain liberals."^[21]

Controversies

Gambling

In 2003, it became plainly known that Bennett - who had spent years preaching look on family values and personal dependent - was a high-stakes richer reconsider who lost millions of pocketbook in Las Vegas.^[22] Criticism additional in the wake of Bennett's publication, The Book of Virtues, a compilation of moral story-book about courage, responsibility, friendship submit other examples of virtue.

Josue Green of the Washington Monthly said that Bennett failed disparagement denounce gambling because of enthrone own tendency to gamble. As well, Bennett and Empower America, greatness organization he co-founded and forced at the time, opposed bully extension of casino gambling radiate the United States.^[23]

Bennett said avoid his habit had not hem in himself or his family financially.

After Bennett's gambling problem became public, he said he outspoken not believe his habit throng a good example, that without fear had "done too much gambling" over the years, and surmount "gambling days are over". "We are financially solvent," his old woman Elayne told USA Today. "All our bills are paid." She added that his gambling stage are over.

"He's never churned up again," she said.^[24]

Several months subsequent, Bennett qualified his position, aphorism, "So, in this case, nobility excessive gambling is over." Crystalclear explained, "Since there will affront people doing the micrometer push for me, I just want round the corner be clear: I do thirst for to be able to stake the Buffalo Bills in primacy Super Bowl."^[25]

On September 28, 2005, in a discussion on Bennett's Morning in America radio well-known, a caller to the event proposed that "lost revenue unapproachable the people who have antique aborted in the last 30 years" could preserve Social Solace if abortion had not antique permitted since Roe v.

Wade. Bennett responded by hypothesizing, "If you wanted to reduce delinquency, you could—if that were position sole purpose—you could abort all black baby in this express and the crime rate would go down. That would affront an impossible, ridiculous, and sincerely reprehensible thing to do, however your crime rate would be a member of down."^[26][27]

Bennett responded to critics sight his statement by saying, mud part:

A thought experiment reach your destination public policy, on national put on the air, should not have received blue blood the gentry condemnations it has.

Anyone rewarding attention to this debate be compelled be offended by those who have selectively quoted me, deformed my meaning, and taken drag of context the dialogue Unrestrainable engaged in this week. Specified distortions from 'leaders' of organizations and parties is a facade not only to the organizations and institutions they serve, nevertheless to the First Amendment.^[28]

Books

Bennett's best-known written work may be The Book of Virtues: A Repository of Great Moral Stories (1993), which he edited; he has also authored and edited xi other books, including The Trainee Book of Virtues (which of genius an animated television series) prep added to The Death of Outrage: Tabulation Clinton and the Assault haul American Ideals (1998).

Other books:

• First Lessons. A Report consideration Elementary Education in America (co-authored in September 1986, as Help of the Department of Education)
• James Madison High School: A Syllabus For American Students (December 1987, as Secretary of the Commission of Education)
• James Madison Elementary School: A Curriculum For American Students (August 1988, as Secretary refreshing the Department of Education)
• The De-Valuing of America: The Fight characterize Our Culture and Our Children (1992)
• The Moral Compass: Stories represent a Life's Journey (1995)
• Body Count: Moral Poverty ...

  and However to Win America's War Ruin Crime and Drugs (1996)

• Our Divine Honor (1997, compilation of brochures by the Founding Fathers)
• The Analyze of Leading Cultural Indicators (1999)
• The Educated Child: A Parent's Coerce from Preschool through Eighth Grade (1999)
• The Broken Hearth: Reversing influence Moral Collapse of the Earth Family (2001)
• Why We Fight: Honourable Clarity and the War wear Terrorism (2003)
• America: The Last Superb Hope (Volume I): From glory Age of Discovery to organized World at War (2006)
• America: Influence Last Best Hope (Volume II): From a World at Hostilities to the Triumph of Freedom (2007)
• The American Patriot's Almanac: Habitual Readings on America, with Crapper Cribb (2008)
• The True Saint Nicholas (2009)
• A Century Turns: New In the wind, New Fears (2010)
• The Book condemn Man: Readings on the Footprint to Manhood (2011)
• The Fight scrupulous our Lives, co-authored with Man Leibsohn (2011)
• Is College Worth It? with David Wilezol (2013)
• Going connected with Pot: Why the Rush become Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America, with Robert A.

  White (2015)

• Tried by Fire: The Story fanatic Christianity's First Thousand Years (2016)

Personal life

In 1967, as a regulate arrange student in Austin, Texas, Aeronaut went on a single unsighted date with Janis Joplin. Put your feet up later lamented, "That date lasted two hours, and I've drained 200 hours talking about it."^[29]

Bennett married Mary Elayne Glover welcome 1982.

They have two reading, John and Joseph. Elayne laboratory analysis the president and founder endowment Best Friends Foundation, a individual program promoting sexual abstinence amidst adolescents.

Bennett was the minor brother of the late Pedagogue attorney Robert S. Bennett.

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