Rotary Club of Santa Monica!
"2001/2002 - A Rotary
Odyssey"
Bruce Herschensohn
Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and
radio political commentator for the last two decades. After service in the
U.S. Air Force, he began his own motion picture company and then was appointed
Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information
Agency. During his tenure, the USIA received more awards for film and
television productions than all other departments and agencies of the U.S.
Government combined, including the Oscar from the Academy of Motion Pictures
Arts and Sciences. In 1969 he was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young
Men in the Federal Government. He received the second highest civilian award,
the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became Deputy Special Assistant to
President Nixon.
His travels to over ninety countries gave him
unique insight of worldwide political and governmental affairs. Herschensohn
taught "The U.S. Image Abroad" at the University of Maryland,
occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College teaching "U.S. Foreign and
Domestic Policies" and was chairman of the University Board at Pepperdine
University. He was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team.
Herschensohn was the 1992 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California
and was defeated while winning over one million votes more than the national
ticket of the Party.
He was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy
Institute of Politics at Harvard University for the spring 1996 semester,
teaching "U.S. Foreign Policy," is a non-resident associate fellow
of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and currently teaches foreign
affairs at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.
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