CURRENT:
Announced on Dec. 10, 1991.

CAREER:
· Co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" and "Capital Gang," regular panelist on "The McLaughlin Group," syndicated columnist since 1975.
· Communications director in the Reagan administration, 1985-87.
· Researcher, speechwriter and assistant to Richard Nixon starting on his campaign and then in the White House, 1966-74.
· Executive assistant at Nixon's law firm, 1965.
· Assistant editorial page editor at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
· Author of Right from the Beginning (1988), Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (1975), The New Majority: President Nixon at Mid-passage (1973), .

EDUCATION:
M.A. in journalism from Columbia University, 1962; B.A. in English from Georgetown University, 1960.

FAMILY:
Married Shelley Ann Scarney in 1971.

AGE:
54 years, 2.5 months on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 1993.
Born Nov. 2, 1938 in Washington, DC; father was a partner in an accounting firm, mother a nurse and homemaker.  They had nine children.