Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium

Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the more than two decades.  After service in the United States Air Force and founding his own motion picture company, he was appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information Agency.  In 1969, he was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government.  He also served as a Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon.  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.  In 1992, he was the Republican nominee for the United States Senate in California.  He was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University and, from 1993 to 2001, a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute.  He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and is a non-resident Associate Fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom as well as a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Individual Freedom.