Our
Speaker
David A. Keene
Conservatives Look to the Future
David
Keene, the Chairman of the American Conservative
Union. They participate in one of the largest
conservative conventions in the United States.
This past convention had over 6000 people
attending. The American Conservative Union is
the original conservative think tank. You will
not want to miss this event.
Since December 1984, David A. Keene has been
the chairman of the American Conservative Union,
the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots
conservative lobbying organization. He is also
a managing associate at the Carmen Group, a
lobbying firm in Washington, DC.
Keene
attended the University of Wisconsin Law School,
where he was the National Chairman of Young
Americans for Freedom. Since then, he has 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.
Keene’s
involvement in presidential politics extends
back to the Nixon Administration, where he
served as a Special Assistant to Vice President
Spiro Agnew. His Capitol Hill experience
includes such varied roles as 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.
Keene
is recognized as one of the chief spokesmen for
conservative principles and politics.
Accordingly, he is regularly featured on a
variety of radio, television and print media,
and he shas written for publications such as
National Review, the Washington Times and the
Boston Globe. He is also a columnist for the
Hill, a newspaper covering Congress.