He advised Ronald Reagan, ran the American Conservative Union and is the current president of the National Rifle Association, but liberals seem to love level-headed David Keene.
We have new proof: at a gala for The Constitution Project, the voice of conservatives was honored by lefties Morton Halperin, a former ACLU exec, and newsman Al Hunt.
Hunt said his 36-year friendship began when, in 1976, he covered Reagan’s bid to unseat former President Gerald Ford for the Wall Street Journal. “I was a cool young lefty and I thought, ‘I’m going to going to have to put up with these troglodytes because I really didn’t know Governor Reagan.’”
But, he said, “the most interesting people I think I ever covered in my life were the Reagan people in 1976 and foremost of everyone was David Keene.” Added Hunt, now with Bloomberg News, “There is no one I have known in politics–no one–who I have disagreed with more and that I have respected as much and liked as much as David Keene.”
