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William "Bill" Kristol (born December 23 , 1952 in New York City ) is an American Neoconservative commentator. He is cast as a neoconservative for his passionate advocacy for Israel and strong advocacy for projecting American power and for a strong American presence in the Middle East . Starting with the 1991 Gulf War , he continuously called for the ousting of Saddam Hussein . Kristol is Jewish and the son of Irving Kristol , considered to be one of the founders of the neoconservative movement, and Gertrude Himmelfarb , a Victorian scholar. Kristol graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School , a preparatory school for boys located in Manhattan. In 1973 he received a B.A. from Harvard University graduating Magna Cum Laude in three years, and in 1979 a Ph.D. in Political Science , also from Harvard. During his first year of graduate school, Kristol was Alan Keyes ' roommate; this is significant, because many years later, in 1988 , Kristol would run Keyes' unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign against Paul Sarbanes in Maryland . After teaching political philosophy and American politics at the University Of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School Of Government , Kristol went to work in government in 1985 , serving as chief of staff to Education Secretary William J. Bennett during the Reagan Administration, and then as chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle under the first President Bush . Kristol first made his mark as leader of the Project For The Republican Future , a conservative think tank, and rose to fame as a conservative opinionmaker during the battle over the Clinton Health Care Plan . In his first of what would become legendary strategy memos circulated among Republican policymakers, Kristol said the party should "kill," not amend or compromise on, the Clinton health care plan. Thus, Kristol presented the first public document uniting Republicans behind total opposition to the reform plan. A later memo advocated the phrase ''There is no health care crisis,'' which Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole used in his response to Clinton's 1994 State Of The Union Address . After the Republican sweep of both houses of Congress in Bill Clinton advocating military action in Iraq to "protect our vital interests in the Gulf ." He is also a member of the long-time conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute from which the Bush administration has borrowed over two dozen members to fill various government offices and panels. Kristol is currently chairman of PNAC and editor of ''The Weekly Standard''. In 2005 , Kristol caused controversy by praising President George W. Bush 's second inaugural address without disclosing his role as a Consultant to the writing of the speech. Kristol praised the speech highly in his role as a regular political contributor during FOX's coverage of the address, as well as in a '' Weekly Standard '' article, without disclosing his involvement in the speech either time. However, Kristol has not always fallen in line behind the Bush administration. In and capitulation on the part of the president." He is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University where he is teaching a course in the school's Government Department entitled, "Intellectual Foundations of American Foreign Policy." In addition to his role as a political contributor on FOX News, Kristol is also a semi-regular guest on World News Tonight on Sky News (effectively FOX News' British sister channel), appearing live from the US. He is married to Susan Scheinberg, with whom he has three children. He lives in McLean, Virginia. His daughter Anne is an undergraduate student at Washington University in Saint Louis. His son Joe is an undergraduate student at Harvard University and a contracted Marine Corps ROTC Cadet. TRIVIA
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