David Gergen, advisor to the Blanche de trust the American presidents, who died at 83

David Gergen, who worked for four presidents, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, before becoming an academic and political television expert, died. He was 83 years old.

Gergen died in a retirement home in the Massachusetts on July 10, said his son, according to several media.

Washington veteran, DC, suffered from dementia from Lewy’s body, said his son.

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David Gergen speaks in the electoral panel “On the Fault Lines: Decision 2018” in New York. (Krista Kennell / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Those who knew and admired Gergen went to X to express their condolences.

The former first lady of California, Maria Shriver, wrote on X: “David Gergen was a total professional and a really nice man. My thoughts are with his family. He loved politics and he liked to be at the service of this country.”

“RIP, Mr. Gergen,” wrote CBS journalist Robert Costa.

David Gergen, on the left, with the president of the time, Bill Clinton, in the center. (Images Cynthia Johnson / Getty)

The former member of the Democrat Congress of Tennessee Harold Ford, Jr. wrote: “We have lost a good, a very good – Rip, my friend David Gergen. “”

Gergen came with the line that the candidate of the time said Reagan in the 1980 elections: “Are you better than you were four years ago?” According to the New York Times.

He said later about the line: “Rhetorical questions have great power.”

President Reagan gives a press conference to the White House concerning the invasion of the grenade involving American troops as Prime Minister Eugenia Charles de Domenica, on the right, listening and secretary of state George Shultz, on the left, and the defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and behind him, director of communication for the White Chamber, David Gergen. (Getty Images)

In his time with the Nixon administration, Gergen told the Washington Post in 1981: “I was young, and I was too naive. It hated me a lot. It was an extremely difficult emotionally experience, in terms of belief to people.”

After leaving the public service, Gergen worked as a publisher and columnist, as well as for the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the Liberal Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. He was also a commentator for PBS, CNN and NPR.

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“To say that I count on him is an understatement,” said the Washington Post in 1981. “He is the best conceptual, in terms of communication strategy, that we have.”