| Ben Wattenberg AKA Benjamin J. Wattenberg Born: 26-Aug-1933
Birthplace: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Pundit, Columnist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Think Tank moderator Military service: USAF (1955-57) Was a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson. Father: Judah Wattenberg (d. 23-May-1996)
Mother: Rachel Gutman Wattenberg (d. 1975)
Sister: Rebecca Schull (actress)
Wife: Marna Hade Wattenberg (div., d. 11-Aug-1997)
Daughter: Sarah Wattenberg
Son: Daniel Wattenberg
Daughter: Ruth Wattenberg
Wife: Diane Abelman
Daughter: Rachel Wattenberg
High School: PS 95, Bronx, NY
University: BA English, Hobart College, Geneva, NY (1955)
Professor: Mary Washington College
US News and World Report Contributing Editor (1989-90)
White House Speechwriter
American Enterprise Institute 1976
Coalition for a Democratic Majority Cofounder
Committee on the Present Danger
Austrian Ancestry Paternal
German Ancestry Maternal
Jewish Ancestry
Author of books:
The Real Majority (1970, with Richard Scammon)
The First Universal Nation: Leading Indicators & Ideas about the Surge of America in the 1990s (1991)
Values Matter Most (1995)
Fighting Words: A Tale of How Liberals Created Neo-Conservatism (2008)
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