Bruce Herschensohn

Bruce Herschensohn (1932-2020) was a fixture in American politics. He received the Distinguished Service Medal, served as Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon, was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team, and was the 1992 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California. He also worked as a political commentator on KABC-TV and KABC Radio. Herschensohn taught at the University of Maryland, occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College, was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy...See more

Bruce Herschensohn (1932-2020) was a fixture in American politics. He received the Distinguished Service Medal, served as Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon, was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team, and was the 1992 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in California. He also worked as a political commentator on KABC-TV and KABC Radio. Herschensohn taught at the University of Maryland, occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College, was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University, and Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute. He worked with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and from 1998 until his passing in 2020 taught at the School of Public Policy of Pepperdine University, where he was the Chairman of the Board and a Senior Fellow. Herschensohn was also a Non-Resident Associate Fellow of the Nixon Center and served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Individual Freedom. See less