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David Keene is a columnist with The Hill where he writes about politics and US Congress.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He has also contributed to the National Review, the Washington Times and the Boston Globe.[CR-LF][CR-LF]He has been the chairman of the American Conservative Union since 1984. He is the managing associate of the Carmen Group, a District of Columbia based governmental affairs and lobbying firm.[CR-LF][CR-LF]Mr. Keene attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he was the National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom. He has also been a John F. Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics, a First Amendment Fellow at Vanderbilt University's Freedom Forum, a member of the Board of Visitors at Duke University's Public Policy School, and a member of the Board of Directors at the National Rifle Association.[CR-LF][CR-LF]During the Nixon administration, he was Special Assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew. He was also Executive Assistant to New York Senator Jim Buckley, Southern Regional Political Director for Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign; National Political Director for George Bush's 1980 presidential race; Senior Advisor to former Senator Bob Dole in 1988 and advisor to Dole's presidential campaign in 1996.

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